Cleft Lip Repair

Congenital cleft lip is generally divided into unilateral cleft lip and bilateral cleft lip. According to the degree of fissure, it is divided into cleft lip, incomplete cleft lip and complete cleft lip. The characteristics of complete labiality include: the gap is triangular, the affected side is flat, the nose is flat, the distance between the inner and outer feet of the wing is widened, the outer foot is low, the nasal column is diagonal to the cleft side, and the bilateral cleft nasal column is short. Or the orbicularis oris muscle is split and dislocated. The requirements for cleft lip repair are: ① precise dissection and alignment to repair cracks. ② Reconstruct the direction of the orbicularis oris muscle. ③ Reconstruction of nasal base, lip peak and lip beads. ④ Repair the nostrils and nose.

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