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Bilateral cleft lip reconstruction.

Over a period of 8 years 140 bilateral cleft lips were operated using a muscle-repositioning banked fork-flap cheiloplasty. The use of buccal mucosal flaps in the intercartilaginous incision is helpful to decrease scarring and contracture by facilitating alar cartilage repositioning and wound closure without tension. Adding mucosa from the inferior turbinate makes complete wound closure relatively easy without tension. A lateral lip orbicularis muscle flap with white skin roll and vermilion is recommended for reconstruction of the Cupid's bow. Muscle continuity by freeing the muscle in one sheet and repositioning in front of the premaxilla with creation of a buccal alveolar sulcus is stressed to prevent the necessity of reentering the lip in a second procedure. The elongation of the columella is done at 1 to 6 years of age by advancing nasal floor tissue onto the columella and repositioning the alar cartilages superiorly and medially. When nasal floor tissue is inadequate, columellar lengthening is done by the use of a composite free ear graft.

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