title: Commissure-based buccal mucosal flap.
abstract: Commissure-based buccal mucosal flaps extending to the retromolar trigone have been used for anterior intraoral mucosal defects. The flap was utilized successfully in 26 patients who had vermilion defect (14 cases), obliteration of the anterior gingivobuccal sulcus (8 cases), and anterior maxillary defect (4 cases).
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Marmara University School of Medicine, Instanbul, Turkiye.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tezel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Numanoğlu
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Celebiler
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bayramiçli
mesh_terms: D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005882:Gingival Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D005893:Gingivoplasty; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000601:surgery; D008048:Lip Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery; D008441:Maxillary Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000637:transplantation*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014727:Vestibuloplasty