ROLE OF FIBRIN SEALANT IN PREVENTION OF HANGING PALATE – OUR EXPERIENCE

Elankumar S¹ and Chittoria R K^1,

¹Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, India-605006

Cite this paper:
Elankumar S and Chittoria R K. ROLE OF FIBRIN SEALANT IN PREVENTION OF HANGING PALATE – OUR EXPERIENCE. International Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 2018; 6(2):51-55. doi: 10.12691/ijcdr-6-2-3

Abstract

Hanging palate is one of the rare complications of cleft palate surgery, where the sutured palatal mucoperiosteal flaps dehisced from the sutured anterior alveolar margin. Though secondary suturing is one of the options to treat this complication, secondary surgery which increases the morbidity should be prevented. Conventionally obturator placement following surgery has been described. Here we are sharing our idea of using fibrin sealant for preventing the complication of hanging palate.

Keywords:
Hanging palate fibrin sealant cleft palate complications

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