Surgical Strategy for the Treatment of Facial Clefts

Strategy for Nasal Reconstruction in Atypical Facial Clefts

It is difficult to put forward a strategy for the treatment of nasal clefts due to the rarity and diversity of anatomical aberrations of these cases contrary to the common nasal affection in cleft lip and palate patients, which differ in severity rather than differing in the morbid anatomy. This simple strategy for correction of these nasal clefts will hopefully help surgeons to achieve better ...

Epidemiology of facial clefts.

Data from the Glasgow Register of Congenital Malformations were used to investigate the epidemiology of congenital facial clefts over the period 1974-85. Facial clefts were registered in 247 infants representing a prevalence of 1.56 per 1000 total births. Cleft palate was more common than cleft lip, with cleft lip and palate occupying an intermediate position. More than half of the infants with...

Surgical Treatment of Facial Paralysis

The management of facial paralysis is one of the most complex areas of reconstructive surgery. Given the wide variety of functional and cosmetic deficits in the facial paralysis patient, the reconstructive surgeon requires a thorough understanding of the surgical techniques available to treat this condition. This review article will focus on surgical management of facial paralysis and the treat...

The Surgical Treatment of Facial Injuries

Kyle, M.B., B.Ch., F.R.C.S. (Pp. xi + 260; figs. 42. 42s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1960. THE sub-title of this book is "A Symposium for Surgeons." It is in fact a collection of papers on nearly all aspects of peptic ulceration written by eight authors, seven of whom are past or present members of the Liverpool school, and edited by the two authors whose names appear on the co...

The Surgical Treatment of Facial Injuries.