Soft tissue defects in oral & maxillofacial region caused by tumor resection, trauma, congenital deformities have been treated in autogenous soft tissue flap, allogenic material, free dermal graft, fascia graft.
Of these methods, autogenous dermis graft had initially been applied in hernia treatment at the beginning of nineteenth century and have been applied in soft tissue augmentation coverage of vital structure, dead space removal and reconstruction
of
fascia.
A fat graft is used in reconstruction of orbit at the enucleation, restoration of facial contours, etc.
In this case, patient with chin soft tissue defect in traffic accident was-treated in autogenous dermis-fat graft from patient's abdominal and gluteal region, Chin defect was reconstructed favorably. There was no severe atrophy of grafted area 12
months
postoperatively. We will report the result that is favorable esthetically with literature review.
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