BACKGROUND The ideal method for buccal defects should provide good outcome of both function and appearance; our goal is to highlight the reliability of radial forearm flap in buccal reconstruction. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted. From 2005 to 2012, 20 radial forearm flaps were used to repair the defects. We analyzed the superiority and reliability of the flap; in addition, we rev...

CONTEXT The traumatic loss of an ear greatly affects the patient because of the severe aesthetic deformity it entails. The characteristic format of the ear, with a fine skin covering a thin and elastic cartilage, is not found anywhere else in the human body. Thus, to reconstruct an ear, the surgeon may try to imitate it by sculpting cartilage and covering it with skin. OBJECTIVE To use a plat...

OBJECTIVES To systematically review and quantify complication rates and to identify preoperative factors among patients who underwent platysma myocutaneous flap reconstruction for head and neck cancer. DESIGN This study analyzed 190 patients in 16 case series published between 1982 and 2002. Funnel plots, contingency tables, and chi(2) analyses were used to minimize bias and heterogeneity amo...

Submandibular gland ptosis is a common impediment to obtaining superior surgical aesthetic results in neck lift surgery. Techniques for suspending the submandibular gland have been proposed, but these procedures have the drawbacks of disturbing the floor of the mouth mucosa and periosteum. We present an approach of submandibular gland suspension for the treatment of gland ptosis by employing a ...

In essence, the article published in 1998 described a technique for performing a platysmaplasty in conjunction with suction lipectomy of the submental area through a 2.5-cm submental incision to treat the “heavy” neck or the neck with an oblique cervicomandibular angle without using periauricular skin incisions.1 I reported my results of 56 patients treated between 1981 and 1997. As this relati...