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Date Published: 09/09/2023
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v529i2.6446
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Vol. 529 No. 2 (2023)
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Võ , T. T. H., Dương, T. T., & Nguyễn, H. N. (2023). CHARACTERISTICS OF SCAR IN CLEFT LIPAND PALATE PATIENTS BEFORE TREATMENT WITH YAG LASER. Vietnam Medical Journal, 529(2). https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v529i2.6446

CHARACTERISTICS OF SCAR IN CLEFT LIPAND PALATE PATIENTS BEFORE TREATMENT WITH YAG LASER

Thị Thuý Hồng Võ 1,, Trần Trung Dương1, Hồng Nhung Nguyễn1
1 National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology, Hanoi

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Abstract

Objectives: to describe the lip scar characteristics of the scar in cleft lip and palate patients treated with YAG laser. Methods: clinical trial. Subjects were 35 cleft lip and palate patients who had surgery, then they were treated scars with YAG laser. Results: 100% of cases are sticky scars that stretch, deform and thicken red lips. 94.3% had sticky and fibrous scars, 97.1% of scars were 1-2mm in height, 100% of scars had pink Vascular properties 82.9% had mixed pigmented scars according to the improVed VancouVer scale. Conclusion: Scar characteristics in cleft palate patients who had surgery and treating with YAG laser was a stretchy, sticky, slightly conVex scar with pink Vascular nature and mixed pigmentation.

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: Scar, cleft lip and palate, Laser YAG

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