CASE REPORT: MANAGEMENT OF FACIAL SCAR DUE TO DRAINING SINUS OF DENTAL ORIGIN USING Z-PLASTY: REPORT OF TWO CASES

Two female patients who visited oral and maxillofacial surgery's outpatient department, complaining of small scar on chin and on left cheek respectively. They were unsatisfied with appearance of scar as it was aesthetically unpleasant to them. Both patients had history of extraoral draining sinus of dental origin. They were treated by using Z plasty technique in which after excision of scarred tissues, two triangular flaps were raised similar to letter Z and were transposed, thus completing the Z plasty procedure. Conclusion- Z plasty is simple and efficient way of releasing wound contracture or covering small sized skin defects to improve aesthetics as well as functionality of skin tissues.