Bilateral nasal mucoperiosteal flaps in bilateral cleft palate repair.
A simple technique is presented which uses bilateral nasal mucoperiosteal flaps to cover the raw surface on the nasal side of a Wardill-type pushback procedure for cleft palate repair. The flaps provide the additional tissue necessary for this coverage in bilateral cleft repairs. Primary healing was seen in 18 patients, and follow-up speech evaluation in 15 patients demonstrated no nasality in 10, mild sporadic nasality in four, and moderate to severe hypernasality in one.
D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000601:surgery; D010521:Periosteum / Q000601:surgery; D013524:Surgical Flaps