Lip and nose deformities often occur after the first stage of cleft lip surgery, and the lip deformities after cleft lip surgery are not as serious as nasal deformities, but because the lips are in a very conspicuous position on the face, the defects in the lips become particularly obvious. Many people worry that the surgery will fail and that the lips will not look as good as before. In fact, everyone's worries are superfluous.
Cleft lip repair surgery is a sequence of surgery, the purpose of the first stage of surgery is to eliminate the cleft in the lip and restore the functionality of the lip, and the second stage of surgery in addition to repairing the normal anatomy also needs to consider aesthetics, so that the lip can return to a natural and coordinated shape.
Common lip deformities after the first stage of cleft lip repair surgery mainly include obvious upper lip scars, local thickening or deletion of lip red tissue, obvious upper lip scars, uneven lip margins, and inconspicuous crests in people. The cause of lip deformities may be due to the inexperience of the surgeon, poor surgical methods and intraoperative procedures, or increased age, lip development, amplification of lip deformities, etc.
In order to reduce the psychological impact of cleft lip deformity on children, lip deformity repair surgery can be done at the age of five or six to improve the child, so that children have a happy childhood and school time.
The second stage of cleft lip repair surgery generally enters the incision from the scar margin of the upper lip surgery, and then reasonably designs the surgical method according to the patient's own conditions and the degree of deformity, dissects and reduces the orbicularis orbicularis muscle, lengthens or shortens the upper lip, reconstructs the human middle, lip arch and lip beads, repairs the lip red defect, etc., and maximizes the use of surrounding tissue conditions to achieve the best surgical effect.
Of course, "three points of surgery, seven points of care", postoperative wound management plays a crucial role in the presentation of surgical results. After surgery, the wound should be kept clean and dry, and the dressing should be changed every day to remove exudate and blood scabs. Early reduction of upper lip movements, use of scar removal cream to prevent scar hyperplasia after wound healing, etc.
After the wound is recovered, the scar is not obvious, the height of the upper lip is appropriate, the lip red form is good, the upper lip is full, and the surgical effect can basically meet the requirements of the patient. Lip repair surgery is more difficult, it may be difficult to achieve complete lip symmetry or exactly the same as normal lips, we also need to establish a reasonable surgical expectations, otherwise the hope will be disappointed.