Coghlan K, O'Regan B, Carter J
Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University College Hospital, London, Great Britain.
J Craniomaxillofac Surg. 1989 Aug;17(6):255-9. doi: 10.1016/s1010-5182(89)80093-9.
At University College Hospital, between 1980 and 1985, sixty patients with cleft lip and palate deformity underwent transpalatal maxillary advancement for the correction of mid-face hypoplasia. One third of these patients subsequently required closure of oro-nasal fistulae and we present the results of these twenty cases where anteriorly based dorsal tongue flaps were used. Seventeen were successful and the causes of three failures are discussed.
