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. 1996 Oct;34(5):432-5.
doi: 10.1016/s0266-4356(96)90102-3.

Aesthetic lip splits

J P Hayter  1 , E D Vaughan, J S Brown
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Aesthetic lip splits

J P Hayter et al. Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 1996 Oct.

Abstract

Both upper and lower lip splits, usually with osteotomy of the underlying jaw, improve access to the deep structures of the head and neck. A simple modification to the midline lip split is to incorporate a chevron in both the peri-oral skin and vermilion margin. The advantages are: accurate wound closure, no straight line contracture and a broken line of the peri-oral scar. This improves the aesthetic result of the healed lip.

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