title: Lower lip reconstruction with a hard palate mucoperiosteal graft.
abstract: Reconstruction of a lower lip deformity associated with leakage of saliva (drooling) and food spillage is challenging. To achieve complete closure of the mouth, the lips must have a sufficient and uniform thickness. Here we report a patient with lower lip deformity secondary to resection of a malignant tumor, in whom reconstruction was done with a hard palate mucoperiosteal graft. Perfect mouth closure without any leakage of saliva and a natural contour of the reconstructed lower lip were obtained, thus providing good aesthetic and functional results. This is the first report about the repair of a lower lip deformity with a hard palate mucoperiosteal graft. This type of graft seems to be a useful option for reconstructing lip deformities, and it can be widely applied to treat deformities caused by tumor resection, trauma, or cleft lip.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Kyowa Hospital, Fushimiku, Kyoto, Japan. ranran_ito@yahoo.co.jp
authors.forename: Ran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujiwara
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000601:surgery*; D008048:Lip Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000637:transplantation; D021362:Palate, Hard / Q000637:transplantation; D010521:Periosteum / Q000637:transplantation; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D019737:Transplants