Problem: If someone is setting the features on the case of an elderly woman who lost a significant amount of weight. During life, she had a large, mesmerizing smile. She had excellent dental hygiene and was incredibly proud of her teeth.
The struggle you are facing with setting her features is that she has maintained her natural teeth which, coupled with her weight loss, are making her mouth difficult to close, and is creating unnatural forms.
Q1. How would you address the process of closing her mouth- which method of mouth closure do you think would work the best and why?
Q2. What steps, if any, would you take to create a more natural look within the surrounding facial structures of her mouth and why?
Q3. If the family did not have a preference, would you opt to close the lips, leave them parted slightly, or have the lips parted greatly and why?
Q4. If the family was adamant that her mouth be closed with lips touching completely and this could not be achieved naturally, what would you do?