Repair of the unilateral cleft lip nose using contralateral alar crease grafts.
An operation is described for the correction of the unilateral cleft lip nose when there is a deficiency of alar tissue with superior displacement of the alar maxillary junction. This method uses a full-thickness graft from the contralateral alar crease.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D009666:Nose / Q000002:abnormalities*; D012225:Rhinoplasty / Q000379:methods*