Utilization of the buccal fat pad for closure of oro-antral and/or oro-nasal communications.
Defects in the posterior alveolus and hard palate up to a diameter of 4 cm can sometimes be closed by covering them with the buccal fat pad and grafting the latter with a split thickness skin graft. In addition local flaps may be necessary. 4 cases have been treated so far with complete success.
D000273:Adipose Tissue; D000543:Alveoloplasty / Q000379:methods; D002610:Cheek; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009957:Oroantral Fistula / Q000601:surgery*; D010157:Palatal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous