METHOD FOR ELIMINATION OF SECONDARY DEFORMATION OF OSTEOCHONDRAL SEGMENT OF NOSE IN PATIENTS WITH CONGENITAL UNILATERAL CLEFT LIP AND PALATE Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC A61B17/24 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, specifically to oral and maxillofacial surgery, and is intended for use in removal of osteochondral deformation of nose in patients with unilateral congenital cleft lip and palate after undergoing earlier cheiloplasty, cheilorhinoplasty or cheilorhinoseptoplasty. Method includes making on columella a V-shaped incision, angle of which is shifted from center line by 2-3 mm towards healthy side. Resecting hypertrophied sections of lower concha. Then hypertrophied wing cartilage is reinforced with cartilage autograft plate of resected sections of quadrangular cartilage installed overlapped on wing cartilage. After increasing height of nasal tip projection and elimination of defect pear-shaped holes through section at base of nose wings, and establishment of a bone autograft obtained from resected areas opener, columella lengthen, cutting V-shaped incision to form a Y-shaped scar. Fixing plaster splint is placed on nose. Nasal passages are packed with bristles with antibacterial anti-inflammatory agent. Postoperative sutures and gypsum splinter are removed on 7-10 days.

EFFECT: by strengthening hypertrophied alar cartilage and resection of hypertrophied areas of inferior turbinates, method enables to reinforce hypertrophied alar cartilage on side of cleft, simultaneously eliminate deformation of cartilage of nasal septum and department as well as to eliminate deformation of nose wing on side of cleft.

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