Nasolabial fold

As nasolabial folds ( " nasolabial furrow ", from the Latin nasus "nose" and labium " lip " ) those soft tissue well is referred to both sides from the top of the nose pulls next to the corner of his mouth and with one of the distinguishing features of the face.

Shape, depth and length of the nasolabial fold are determined by the facial muscles, the different extent of the existing subcutaneous fat and age.

Previously it was called " grief fold ". In contrast to the then still popular opinion of Psychosomatikern can a pronounced nasolabial fold since the discovery of the pathogen Helicobacter pylori by the Australian physician Barry Marshall and John Robin Warren ( early eighties ) and then developed treatment options, however, no longer used for diagnosis of duodenal ulcer.

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