title: Tongue musculomucosal flap for soft palate reconstruction in patients with OSAHS - clinical experience in technical strategy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  With the idea of "replacing lost tissure with similar tissure in kind", vessel-pedicled palate mucosal flap, pedicled buccal musculomucosal flap and adjacent tongue musculomucosal flap could be the ideal approaches to soft palate reconstruction.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess the adjacent tongue musculomucosal flap for soft palate reconstruction.
  
  
  METHODS
  From August 2010 to July 2011, we applied tongue musculomucosal flap for soft palate reconstruction in three patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea/Hypopnoes Syndrome (OSAHS) in order to release OSAHS symptom by glossal volume reduction.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All patients recovered from intraoral operations with good objective as subjective speech and swallowing. Suffice it to say that OSAHS symptom was released for these patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Here we provide a case to deal with problems related to OSAHS symptom when one works on oral surgery or reconstructing oral structure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Stomatology, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo, China. binbinyingdr@hotmail.com
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ying
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D010160:Palate, Soft / Q000601:surgery*; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000009:adverse effects; D014059:Tongue / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome