Application of the extended superficial musculoaponeurotic system flap to facial clefts.

Mixter, R C; Carson, L V; Walton, B J · Plast Reconstr Surg · 1997

case_series · Level IV

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Abstract

We believe that the extended SMAS technique may be useful in selected facial cleft patients. In three Treacher Collins patients, this technique produced a modest improvement in the quantity and quality of the malar soft tissue that had not been achieved after orbitozygomatic or maxillomandibular surgery.

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