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case_images: Abdominal enlargement: at the initial visit (June 2016) and at the last control appointment (November 2017).
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case_images: At the moment of the patient's first dental visit, the presence was evident of a huge abdominal growth due to ascites (Figure 1).
case_images: Extraoral views. Note the audition appliances.
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case_images: The facial profile was markedly convex with an increased lower third, retrusive chin, protruding maxilla, closed nasolabial angle, and manifested lip incompetence (mouth permanently open) (Figure 2).
case_images: View of the macroglossia.
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case_images: Intraorally, the examination showed both arches with interdental spacing, carious cavities in all primary molars, a root remnant of the upper left lateral incisor with related abscess fistula and gingival swelling, and macroglossia associated with an evident anterior open bite (Figure 3).