Oral surgery; a text-book on general surgery and medicine as applied to dentistry . be expected in ninety-five per cent, of opera-tions. A resultant scar is, of course, unavoidable. Operation for Hare Lip.—The operation for closure ofclefts of the lips is known as cheilorrhaphy or the many operations that have been described as origi-nal or modifications, only a few can be considered here. Theend sought in all operations is to pare the margins of thecleft, bring them together, and hold them there until unionhas occurred. The principal difficulty is to avoid a notchat the lip ma
Oral surgery; a text-book on general surgery and medicine as applied to dentistry . be expected in ninety-five per cent, of opera-tions. A resultant scar is, of course, unavoidable. Operation for Hare Lip.—The operation for closure ofclefts of the lips is known as cheilorrhaphy or the many operations that have been described as origi-nal or modifications, only a few can be considered here. Theend sought in all operations is to pare the margins of thecleft, bring them together, and hold them there until unionhas occurred. The principal difficulty is to avoid a notchat the lip margin, and various methods have been proposedto overcome the difficulty. Malgaignes operation, shownin figures 131, 132, 133, consists in making the incisionsfrom the margins of the cleft outward to near the skinline of the lip. The flaps thus made are turned down and thefree margins adjusted. If the flaps are too long they may 310 OPERATION FOR HARE LIP 311 be trimmed back so as not to project beyond the lip line afterrepair takes place. It is better to allow some projections.
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