Tongue musculomucosal flap for soft palate reconstruction in patients with OSAHS – Clinical experience in technical strategy

B. Ying, W. Ye, Z. Li

Department of Stomatology, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo, China. binbinyingdr@hotmail.com

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• Maxillofacial Surgery

BACKGROUND: With the idea of “replacing lost tissure with similar tissure in kind”, vessel-pedicled palate mucosal flap, pedicled buccal musculomucosal flap and adjacent tongue musculomucosal flap could be the ideal approaches to soft palate reconstruction.

AIM: To assess the adjacent tongue musculomucosal flap for soft palate reconstruction.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: From August 2010 to July 2011, we applied tongue musculomucosal flap for soft palate reconstruction in three patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea/Hypopnoes Syndrome (OSAHS) in order to release OSAHS symptom by glossal volume reduction.

RESULTS: All patients recovered from intraoral operations with good objective as subjective speech and swallowing. Suffice it to say that OSAHS symptom was released for these patients.

CONCLUSIONS: Here we provide a case to deal with problems related to OSAHS symptom when one works on oral surgery or reconstructing oral structure.

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