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incision
(redirected from relaxing incision)

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The surgeon will usually find more mucosa available from the latter source after undermining the floor of the nose laterally as far as the inferior turbinate or even onto the lateral wall of the nose, where an anterior-to-posterior relaxing incision is made to allow this elevated tissue to be translated medially and onto the septum.
Once the relaxing incision is made, the anterior border of the muscle is advanced medially into the parotid defect in an accordion fashion (figure 2).
 
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