[The super extended sub-mental flap or combo sub-mental flap].
The author presents a technical variation of the sub-mental flap including in a conventional pedicled flap both sub-mental axes and their anastomoses on the midline. The assessment of the first flaps raised according to this method confirms the improvement of the distal blood supply. It allows the possibility to harvest "super extended" flaps reaching the contralateral auricular lobula. This variation can be considered as an axial flap which only the tip, located beyond the mandibular angle, is at random. The evolution of the sub-mental flap from its original description to this variation called "combo sub-mental flap" is then presented. Its reliability and the technical simplification it provides will have to be assessed in the future.
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D002680:Chin; D006801:Humans; D008046:Lip / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps
Combo sub-mental flap; Lambeau sous-mental; Lambeau sous-mental combo; Lip reconstruction; Reconstruction de lèvre; Sub-mental flap