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Treatment of congenital short palate using bilateral buccal musculomucosal flaps
Shinji Kobayashi1, Yukie Ohashi2, Ryouko Fukushima2
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
Case Reports in Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery
|June 4, 2020
Abstract:
A case of congenital short palate was treated by bilateral buccal musculomucosal flaps. The levator veli palatini muscle formed a continuous sling, but the anterior portion was attached to the posterior border of the hard palate. The speech outcome improved from severe to normal.
