Anteriorly Based Tongue Flap for Alveolar Cleft Bone Grafting
When an alveolar cleft is too large to close with adjacent mucosal flaps following a primary bilateral palatoplasty exist, a one-stage procedure for bone grafting become difficulty. The tongue flap is recommended to close large alveolar cleft. These flaps offer dependable vascularity, versatility, low morbidity, and viable augmentation of tissue-deficient area. This article reported one case used of anteriorly based tongue flap with one-stage alveolar cleft bone grafting.
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