Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

Working in Peru: A 25-Year Experience With Voluntary Cleft Missions, and a Technique for the Primary Repair of the Unilateral Cleft Lip and Nasal Deformity

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dc.contributor.author Navarro, Carlos E.
dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-13T20:51:05Z
dc.date.available 2021-04-13T20:51:05Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9252
dc.description.abstract BACKGROUND: CIRPLAST is a nonprofit volunteer plastic surgery program that has provided free surgery for patients with cleft lip and palate deformities in different parts of Peru since 1995. In 2015, the author reported 6,108 patients that had been successfully operated on by the CIRPLAST team over a 20-year period. A technique, developed by the author, for the straight-line vertical cleft lip closure without skin flaps of the unilateral cleft lip, was mentioned in that publication but it was not described. 1 The purpose of this article is to present the technique, which has been successfully employed in all the CIRPLAST cleft missions in Peru, for the past 25 years. METHODS: The straight-line vertical cleft closure does not rely on measurements or skin flaps, and it can be used to close any degree of unilateral cleft lip cleft. The procedure is simple and dependable. After incising the cleft borders on both sides of the cleft, the orbicularis oris muscle is liberated from the surrounding tissues, segmented, and then moved down toward the free border of the lip, so that the cupid's bows can be placed in its normal horizontal position, together with the philtrum on the medial lip, providing normal fullness and pouting of the lower part of the upper lip. Lip length results from the orbicularis oris muscle repair and not from skin flaps. The associated nasal deformity is addressed at the same time as the lip repair, by freeing on the cleft side, the lower lateral cartilage (alar cartilage) from the external nasal skin through a rim incision, and then elevating the cartilage together with its vestibular skin, to place it in its normal position at the tip of the nose, and fixing it there with sutures. RESULTS: The anatomic, functional, and esthetic results of the lip closure together with the correction of the associated nasal deformity have been satisfactory, when comparing the repaired cleft side with the normal side, for symmetry. CONCLUSIONS: The straight-line vertical cleft lip closure, based on the orbicularis oris muscle repair, can be used to close any degree of lip clefting, including very wide clefts, without skin flaps. The associated cleft nasal deformity is corrected before the lip closure. The procedure has been used in all the CIRPLAST cleft missions in Peru for the past 25 years, and the outcomes of the repair over time have been satisfactory and stable. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Wolters Kluwer Health
dc.relation.ispartofseries Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Voluntary missions en_US
dc.subject cleft lip surgery en_US
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.title Working in Peru: A 25-Year Experience With Voluntary Cleft Missions, and a Technique for the Primary Repair of the Unilateral Cleft Lip and Nasal Deformity en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1097/SCS.0000000000007335
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.11
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.23
dc.relation.issn 1536-3732


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