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Why can't my mouth close naturally over my teeth? (Photo)

August 18, 2015
Asked By:ladybug1212 in Mississauga, ON

All my life I've had a sort of protruding kind of mouth and all along I've thought it was my overbite and that it would be fixed with braces, but I just got my braces off and I still can't naturally close my lips over my teeth without my chin dimpling what do i do to have this problem fixed?

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