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The use of a pedicled buccal fat pad graft to line the cheek defect after excision of a large oral leukoplakia is described. The advantages of this fat graft over a split-thickness skin graft are discussed
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Ho, K. Excision of cheek leukoplakia and lining the defect with a pedicle buccal fat pad graft. Br Dent J 166, 455–456 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4806884
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