Zainab Akbar, Eman Zafar, Muhammad Afzal, Syed Gulzar Ali Bukhari.
Tongue flap in oral submucous fibrosis: a promising technique.
Pak Oral Dental J Jan ;36(4):535-7.

Oral Submucous Fibrosis (OSF) is a chronic, insidious debilitating condition of obscure etiology. In our center a young female patient presented with Oral submucous fibrosis without known causative factor. Patient was suspected of having genetic susceptibility as another sibling of her had the same disease. Due to severe limitation in mouth opening, surgical option of laterally based posterior tongue flap was used after releasing fibrous bands. Post operatively mouth opening was improved considerably with transient dysarthria and dysphagia which improved with the passage of time.

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