One-staged repair of unilateral cleft lip and nasal deformity with modified Mohler / 中华整形外科杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the therapeutic effect of one-staged repair of unilateral cleft lip an nasal deformity with modified Mohler.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>The unilateral cleft lip and nasal deformity were repaired in one stage with modified Mohler. The nasal retainers were kept for at least 6 months. The patients were followed up at 3 months and 12 months after operation.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>From Sept. 1998 to Aug. 2008, 103 cases, aged from 2.5 m to 12 m, were treated. 3 months after operation, 97 of 103 patients had good appearance of both lips and noses, which included unobvious scars, symmetric Cupid's bows and nostrils, intermedial nasal columellae and eminentia nasal tips. 6 of them had good appearance of noses only with a little malposition of Cupid' s bows. 89 patients were followed up for 12 months with no deterioration of nasal deformity and delayed growth of greater alar cartilages. 3 patients who had malposition of Cupid's bows also got better.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>The one-staged repair of unilateral cleft lip and nasal deformity with modified Mohler is very practical.</p>