Repair Lower Face defect With an expanded Flap From submental and submandibular region in children

• 作 者: WeimingShen;
• 机 构: Department of plastic surgery,Nanjing Children's Hospital,affiliated to Nanjing Medical University
• 出 处: 2015中华医学会整形外科学分会第十四次全国学术交流会暨第五届中国(福州)ISAPS美容整形外科高级研讨会
• 发表日期: 2015年期

　　Scar and defect in the lower face always lead to serious facial deformity and asymmetry.Conventional method such as skin graft or free flap is hard to obtain a satisfactory outcome.In this article, we present a skin expanding technique.A expanded flap was designed to repair the lower face scar or defect on submental and submandibular regions.A tissue expander was implanted into the region and inflated for 2 to 3 months.After removing the expander, we harvested the flap as a rotation flap to repair the lower facial defect.The longest follow-up period was 3 years.All of the flaps were well matched to the surrounding skin with respect to color, texture, and thickness.A expanded flap on submental and submandibular regions is suitable to repair a lower face defect.