MASK LIFTING IN ORTHOMORPHIC FACIAL CORRECTION OF BILATERAL CLEFT-PALATE

In bilateral cleft palate patients, abnormal obliquity and narrowness of orbits are noted on radiographs, computed tomographic scans, and ma gnetic resonance imaging investigations. Deformity of bony structures (increase in transverse length) is sometimes associated with malpositi on of eyelids, which results in a typical antimongoloid facies. Five p atients were treated, and we report our series to illustrate the probl em and its correction using the ''mask-lift'' procedure, initially des cribed by Tessier and Krastinova.