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Soft tissue expansion in the management of the rare craniofacial clefts
M H Moore1, J A Trott, D J David
1Australian Cranio-Facial Unit, Adelaide Children's Hospital, Australia.
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
Management of the rare craniofacial clefts requires correction of both the soft tissue and skeletal hypoplasia. Tissue expansion of adjacent and distant soft tissue has been used to reconstruct these facial clefts with like quality tissue. Additionally, such soft tissue expansion permits tension free reconstruction of the skeletal clefts by osteotomy and bone graft.