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Guidelines for Complications of Cancer Treatment Vol VIII Part B

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flap is insensate and has no motor function, the primaryconcerns <strong>for</strong> competence are to maintain occlusion andto provide adequate sulcus depth and height so that thelips come in contact with each other. Breach in continuity <strong>of</strong> lip or orbicularis muscle.Lipreconstruction can best be accomplished by followingthe algorithm below.Algorithm <strong>for</strong> Reconstruction <strong>of</strong> Lower/Upper-Lip DefectsReferences1. Grabb and Smith’s Plastic Surgery. Reconstructivesurgery <strong>of</strong> the lips. 5th Ed Lippincott-Raven, 1997; 483.2. Grabb and Smith’s Plastic Surgery. Reconstructivesurgery <strong>of</strong> the lips. 5th Ed Lippincott-Raven, 1997; 545.3. Burget, G.C., Menick, F.J. Aesthetic restoration <strong>of</strong> onehalf<strong>of</strong> the upper lip. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 1986; 78:583.155

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