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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine
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A method of cutting and suturing the lip in the treatment of complete unilateral clefts.

LEMESURIER, Arthur Baker (1889 – 1982)

Plast. reconstr. Surg., 4, 1-12. 1949.

LeMesurier’s cheiloplasty procedure was based on Hagedorn’s method. He was first to attempt construction of the cupid’s bow of the vermilion.

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