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Keywords: Animal bites represent a frequent aetiology of loss of labial substance giving unsightly scars. Repair aims to
Animal bite reconstitute the anatomy by meeting several requirements, aesthetic but also functional. Labial reconstructions
Facial trauma can be performed by well-defined surgical techniques which are particularly numerous. In this work, we present
Scar revision
the correction of an upper lip scar in a 15-year-old male patient.
Cameroon
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adoms.2022.100324
Received 8 July 2022; Accepted 13 July 2022
Available online 22 July 2022
2667-1476/© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. This is an open access article under
the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
K.G.G. Kwedi et al. Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 8 (2022) 100324
4. Conclusion
Informed consent
Author contribution
Fig. 1. Image of centred upper lip scar involving the normal skin
and vermilion. KWEDI: Conception and design of study/review/case series, Final
approval and guarantor, of manuscript, FAYE: Acquisition of data: lab
oratory or clinical/literature search, NGOKWE: Analysis and interpre
tation of data collected, Drafting of article and/or critical revision.
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