[The new potentials for reconstructive restoration in defects of the lower lip after cancer operations]

Eleven patients with cancer of the lower lip were treated in 1995-1996. The first stage of treatment consisted of radiotherapy, the second one of resection of the lower lip with replacement of the defects with a dermatocutaneomucous flap from the cheek, including all anatomical components and hence permitting anatomically full-value repair of the lower lip. The method is reliable and effective.