Clinical Profile and Quality of Life Assessment of Oral Cancer Patients Following Nasolabial Flap Reconstruction Surgery.

To evaluate the quality of life (QOL) of oral cancer patients who had undergone surgical reconstruction with nasolabial flap. A cross-sectional study was conducted over a period of 1 year at a tertiary care hospital and 128 subjects were included. The subjective assessment of quality of life using The University of Washington QOL Questionnaire including physical, socio-emotional, composite and overall QOL, Objective assessment of functional mouth opening and Nasolabial crease scar assessment using Vancouver scar scale was done.