Congenital Lip pits

Congenital Lip pits 

Definition 

         They are  small  shallow depressions affecting the lip. They are of varying depths

            reaching to several millimeters.

Etiology 

         Hereditary disorder.


Clinical features and types 

         It is an epithelial-lined blind pits.

         lower lip is more commonly affected.

         They may be unilateral or bilateral.

         May occur near the midline (paramedian lip pit) or,

         At the oral commissure (commissural lip pit).