Teacher Karen,

I’m sorry to hear it’s a recurrence, as we were hoping it was something else minor!!

Yes, I had several flaps done. The first was a Pec Flap for protection of the carotid artery after surgical removal of tissue, the second was a Buccal Flap for closure after debriding for ORN in the 3rd molar, and lastly a Fibula Free Flap for osteoradionecrosis. The only one done intraorally was the buccal flap as the rest were done via access on the outside of the jaw and neck.

I looked in my records for free flaps, which is mostly done instead of pec flaps these days for certain cases, but I only find one article pertaining to it, which is odd as I try to save everything, so I must have them filed under something else out of 4,000 or so.

I can post what I have regarding flaps, but its lengthy, and it has a few explicit surgical pictures. I think it has listed almost every kind of flap around, each stating the positive and negative aspects of each.

I hope this helps some, and will continue looking!