Abstract

ROSSELL-PERRY, Percy  and  COTRINA-RABANAL, Omar. A flap technique: a new alternative in the treatment palate clefts. Acta méd. peruana [online]. 2014, vol.31, n.3, pp.181-186. ISSN 1728-5917.

Introduction. Different surgical techniques for cleft palate repair have been described actually illustrating good and bad results. The two flap palatoplasty (Bardach) is the most used surgical technique in USA however it has some limitations. Objective. Compare the surgical results obtained in the unilateral cleft palate management using a new surgical technique: the one flap palatoplasty Material and Method. This is a descriptive study. We describe a new surgical technique used since 2007 by us and the obtained surgical outcomes 316 patients with complete unilateral cleft palate were operated using the one flap technique between 2007 to 2014. Results. Anatomical closure of the cleft palates have been obtained in 94.31 % of the cases and functional closure have been observed in 96.84 % of the cases using the proposed technique. We observed 12 patients with palatal fistula (3.79 %) in this study. Other bad results and complications are presented in this paper. Conclusion. We observed an acceptable anatomical and functional closure of the cleft palates using the presented surgical technique. These findings support our concepts presented in this paper using the new surgical technique for unilateral cleft lip repair.

Keywords : Surgery; Plastic; Cleft palate.

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