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    Flap surgery is a technique in plastic and reconstructive surgery where tissue with an intact blood supply is lifted from a donor site and moved to a...
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  • Surgical procedures include crown lengthening, frenectomy, and mucogingival flap surgery. Some contraindications include: Patient with poor standard of plaque...
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  • time and complication rates can be reduced in DIEP flap breast reconstruction. DIEP flap surgery is a type of breast reconstruction after a mastectomy...
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  • Vomer flap surgery was used prior to 1975 as a surgical treatment for children with cleft palate. In this procedure, the vomer bone was used to reconstruct...
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    Treatment may include lifestyle changes, mouthpieces, breathing devices, and surgery. Effective lifestyle changes may include avoiding alcohol, losing weight...
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  • Pharyngeal flap surgery is a procedure to correct the airflow during speech. The procedure is common among people with cleft palate and some types of dysarthria...
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    autologous tissue) such as the back, buttocks, thigh or abdomen. In surgery, a "flap" is any type of tissue that is lifted from a donor site and moved to...
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  • Several techniques for creating flaps are used in plastic surgery. Flap (surgery) Perforator flaps "Sigmoid colon adenocarcinoma local relapse on abdominal...
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    LASIK (redirect from Lasik surgery)
    suitable candidate. During the surgery, a surgeon uses a femtosecond laser or a microkeratome blade to create a thin corneal flap, which is then carefully folded...
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  • Perforator flap surgery is a technique used in reconstructive surgery where skin and/or subcutaneous fat are removed from a distant or adjacent part of...
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  • with any surgery are also possible, including infection and pain. Flap (surgery) Rotation flap TRAM flap Microsurgery List of plastic surgery flaps Perforator...
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  • remodelling Head and neck cancer and microvascular reconstruction free flap surgery Maxillofacial regeneration, which is re-formation of the facial region...
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  • symptoms as before surgery. Some complications are possible; for example, the flap's width can change because of contraction of the flap. This results in...
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    became known as LASIK surgery, was granted by the US Patent Office to Gholam Ali. Peyman, MD on June 20, 1989. It involves cutting a flap in the cornea and...
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    reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. Reconstructive surgery covers a wide range of specialties, including craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery...
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  • character in the arcade game Gaiapolis Flap, a minor character in the film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Flap (surgery), a surgical technique involving...
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    term "free flap" where the transferred tissue is completely detached. Flap (surgery) Free flap Perforator flaps List of plastic surgery flaps Weerda, Hilko...
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  • Phalloplasty (category Masculinizing surgery)
    reconstructed phallus made from a tubed abdominal flap in 1936. The first gender-affirming surgery for a trans man was performed in 1946 by Sir Harold...
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  • In dentistry, open flap debridement is a periodontal procedure in which the supporting alveolar bone and root surfaces of teeth are exposed by incising...
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    Rhinoplasty (redirect from Nose surgery)
    described 55 historical plastic surgery procedures, and his technically innovative free-graft nasal reconstruction (with a tissue-flap harvested from the patient's...
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  • 1960) was a New Zealand otolaryngologist and father of modern plastic surgery for the techniques he devised to repair the faces of wounded soldiers returning...
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    Danish) (12th ed.). pp. 364–367. ISBN 978-87-628-0307-7. "Fibular Free Flap Surgery: FAQ". Cambridge University Hospitals. Retrieved 2024-06-12. Mcrae, Ronald;...
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    Walter Yeo (category Plastic surgery)
    been one of the first people to benefit from advanced plastic surgery, namely a skin flap. Yeo was born in Plymouth, Devon, to Petty Officer Francis Yeo...
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  • lipectomy. Various types of laser surgery are used to treat refractive error. LASIK, in which a knife is used to cut a flap in the cornea, and a laser is...
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  • Peritoneal Flap Vaginoplasty in Male-to-Female Gender Affirmation Surgery: A Case Report". Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery. 26 (8): e23...
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    learn how to control the newly constructed flaps. Posterior pharyngeal flap surgery is mostly used for vertical clefts of the soft palate. The surgeon cuts...
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    altering functional outcome following a vascularised hypothenar fat pad flap surgery". Journal of Hand and Microsurgery. 4 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1007/s12593-011-0051-x...
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    periodontology, gingival grafting, also called gum grafting or periodontal plastic surgery, is a generic term for the performance of any of a number of surgical procedures...
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    Cataract surgery, also called lens replacement surgery, is the removal of the natural lens of the eye that has developed a cataract, an opaque or cloudy...
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  • Nasal reconstruction using a paramedian forehead flap within oral and maxillofacial surgery, is a surgical technique to reconstruct different kinds of...
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