title: Application oflevator veli palatiniretropositioning combined with Buccinator myomucosal island flap for congenital cleft palate.
abstract: Congenital cleft palate causes a serious obstacle to children with regard to language and eating function. The aim of the current study was to examine the clinical application of a type of palatoplasty that has a reduced impact on the maxillary growth and good function in velopharyngeal competence. A total of 37 patients with cleft palate were treated withlevator veli palatiniretropositioning combined with Buccinator myomucosal island flap. The patients were successfully treated in the first phase and were followed up for 1-3 years. Speech intelligibility was satisfactory and no fistula occurred. In conclusion, the results suggested thatlevator veli palatiniretropositioning combined with the Buccinator myomucosal island flap may restore normal anatomic structure and location of thelevator veli palatini, obtain good velopharyngeal competence, and decrease the incidence rate thereof. Thus,levator veli palatiniretropositioning combined with the Buccinator myomucosal island flap is a functional procedure for cleft palate repair.
authors.affiliation: Department of Stomatology, First People's Hospital of Xuzhou City, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221002, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Y J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.affiliation: Department of Stomatology, First People's Hospital of Xuzhou City, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221002, P.R. China.
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Stomatology, First People's Hospital of Xuzhou City, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221002, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Stomatology, First People's Hospital of Xuzhou City, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221002, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Department of Stomatology, First People's Hospital of Xuzhou City, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221002, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Stomatology, First People's Hospital of Xuzhou City, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221002, P.R. China.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
keywords: Buccinator myomucosal island flap; cleft palate; levator veli palatini retropositioning; velopharyngeal competence