[The surgical treatment of lower-lip carcinoma]

After a brief presentation of methods for the treatment of carcinomas of the lower lip, the author describes a new surgical technique which is a judicious modification to the procedure indicated by Webster and Bernard. Its principle consists in repairing the tissue defect resulting from the excision of the lower lip by the additional surgical removal of one or two soft tissue triangles from the region of the nasolabial fold and in achieving primarily, by means of horizontal relieving incisions at the base of the lip defect, an extension of the mouth aperture. Since 1973, this technique has been mainly used at the Clinic and Policlinic of Maxillofacial Surgery of the Warsaw Medical Academy. The results obtained were satisfying from the functional and the aesthetical point of view. Up to now, no recurrences have been seen.