Surgical Alternative for Repair of Bilateral Macrostomia.

J Craniofac Surg

General Practice, Mexico City, Mexico.

Published: September 2018

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The transverse or lateral cleft is the second most common type of craniofacial cleft. The authors report a case of bilateral macrostomia in a male newborn and the authors present a refined method of Kaplan technique for correcting macrostomia. The authors' method is characterized by the creation of a single Z-plasty with the transposed central limb placed in the nasogenian crease.

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