OBJECTIVE To retrospectively analyze our experience using nasal turbinate and hard palate mucosal grafts as shared buttress grafts between the upper and lower eyelid for reconstruction in severe cicatricial entropion. SURGICAL TECHNIQUES A horizontal tarsectomy is performed in the upper and lower eyelid approximately 2 mm posterior to the gray line. The distal tarsal segments are then dissect...

Palatal perforation can be defined as a communication between the nasal cavities and the oral cavity. There are various potential causes of palatal perforation. Failure of the palatal shelves to close during the sixth week of prenatal period results in cleft palate. Maternal alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking, folic acid deficiency, teratogenic drugs, certain viruses, corticosteroid use ...

Clear cell myoepithelioma arising from the minor salivary glands of hard palate is a rare entity. Most of the cases of palatal myoepitheliomas reported so far are either plasmacytoid or spindle cell type. Our literature search revealed only one case report of clear cell myoepithelioma of the palate. We report a case in a 21-year-old female who presented to us with a non-ulcerating, painless fir...