Cleft palate and harelip.

Date:
1908
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cleft palate and harelip. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Toronto, Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, University of Toronto.

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    (Fig. 4) are now placed in position. The use of these gives splendid access to the field of operation; they do not interfere with the opera- tor's movements, and the prongs readily fasten into the toothless glims. An incision is then made into the mucoperiosteum of the hard palate well out to the alveolar margin extending forward Fig. 4. Lane's Gag. beyond the anterior extremity of the cleft,—if this does not extend through the alveolar margin,—and backward to a point just behind the posterior border of the hard palate. With a periosteal elevator, suited to the case, the mucoperiosteum is quickly denuded from this Fig. 5. Showing primary lateral incisions. side, when, with a pair of sharply curved scissors the palate aponeurosis is snipped from the posterior margin of the hard palate, thus freeing the flap from its bony attachment. This in- cision is now packed with a piece of sea ?ponge, and the surgeon proceeds to deal with the opposite side in the same manner. The Vol. Ill, Ser. 18—13