ALLMedicine™ Cheek Reconstruction Center

Jun 6th, 2020 - The cervicofacial flap is a workhorse flap for reconstruction of moderate to large sized defects of the cheek. Defects that involve the eyelid-cheek junction are often the most challenging of these. While the ideal plane of dissection has been deb...

Sep 13th, 2019 - Surgical management of cheek congenital melanocytic nevus (CMN) remains a huge challenge because of undesirable defects in repair. The use of direct closure is often limited to defect reconstruction with a diameter less than 4 cm. This study aimed...

Mar 28th, 2019 - Background Skin cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States, with an estimate of over 5 million cases diagnosed annually. [1] Many of these cancers occur on the face, including the cheeks, which comprise a significant po...

Nov 18th, 2018 - Preservation of facial harmony is a major challenge in reconstruction after resection of head and neck skin tumors. For large medial cheek-skin defects, we used a derived posterior-based cervicofacial flap, or cervical-medial cheek flap (CMCF). We...

Nov 14th, 2018 - The goal of cheek reconstruction is to restore an illusion of "normal." Attention must be directed toward the contralateral cheek skin color, texture, thickness, and contour, because this serves a template for reconstruction. The cheek is a periph...

ATLANTA — A novel anchored rotation flap for infraorbital cheek reconstruction allows full defect repair without causing lower-lid ectropion, Dr. Kord Honda said at the joint annual meeting of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery and the.