Association of availability of tap water system with admission rate after 30 days among burn injury patients: A nationwide population-based study.

Background: We investigated whether the availability of a tap water supply system is associated with lowering the admission rate 30 days after burn injury.

Methods: We analysed data from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000 from the National Health Research Institutes. It contains a random sample of 1,000,000 subjects out of 22 million beneficiaries of the National Health Insurance of Taiwan from 1996 to 2010.

A simple method for lower lip reconstruction after trauma using an advancement mucosal flap from the remaining lip.

The traumatic injury of lower lip is a frequent clinical condition, and quite often, the soft tissue loss makes the reconstruction of lower lip's defect a challenging procedure. Many methods have been described to reconstruct these defects; however, most of them lack simplicity and require advance experience in flap surgery. In this report, a simple technique is presented for lower lip reconstruction following traumatic injury using an advancement mucosal flap from the remaining lower lip.