Unilateral cleft lip repair during charity missions: a consideration about simultaneously lip and nose repair.

CONCLUSION: Authors present their experience in one step lip, septum and nasal tip repair for unilateral cleft lip patients. The big lack of this study is the absence of a long follow-up due to the surgery performed during charity missions. Thanks to the recent papers published in literature we can state that primary septal repositioning is a safe adjunctive technique to primary lip closure, although this operation reduces the psychosocial consequences of an otherwise uncorrected cleft nose deformity, it does not necessarily eliminate the need for a future operation. PMID: 25937581 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Minerva Stomatologica - Category: Dentistry Tags: Minerva Stomatol Source Type: research