[Socioeconomic adjustment in young cleft lip-palate patients].

Introduction: The aim of our study was to evaluate socioeconomic adjustment of young adults after treatment for cleft lip and palate.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study was made including patients born from 1975 to 1986 and followed-up in our department. The investigation was based on response to a questionnaire that partly replicated a national survey of social and economic life in the population (standard of living survey Burgundy, Insee France 1999).

[Enteral feeding by nasogastric tube in mandibular fracture osteosynthesis].

Introduction: Mandibular fractures are among the most common fractures of the face; their treatment consists in a reduction by intermaxillary blocking then miniplate osteosynthesis. In our unit we systematically insert a nasogastric tube for enteral feeding to improve nutrition and to protect healing. Since the beginning of 2002, a series of patients operated for simple mandibular fractures were fed immediately after the operation by a semiliquid food.

How to deal with abdominoplasty in an abdomen with a scar.

Abdominoplasty is a common procedure in plastic surgery. Reviewing 150 patients who underwent abdominoplasty, it has been observed that 72% of the patients already had an abdominal scar. How to deal with abdominoplasty in an abdomen with a previous scar is discussed in this article.

Hand rejuvenescence by fat filling.

The advantages of fat filling for hand rejuvenescence are discussed. Seventy-two patients treated by this method are presented, including their follow-up, complication rate, and details of combined operations. Preference is given to local anesthesia when no other major surgeries are associated with the method.

Umbilical technical maneuvers to facilitate abdominoplasty with limited incisions.

Eighty six cases of abdominoplasty with limited incisions are discussed and the advantages of severing the umbilical stump are stressed.