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Abstract
The forehead flap, whilst providing a reliable method of intra-oral reconstruction, leaves an unsightly donor defect in the skin grafted forehead. We describe a technique of resurfacing the forehead using tissue expansion. Axial pattern flaps of expanded hairless temporal scalp are transposed to the forehead. This technique is likely to have wide applications since no other satisfactory method of resurfacing the entire forehead exists.
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© 1987 The Trustees of British Association of Plastic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc.
