THE DEVELOPMENT and utilization of a flap in surgery is at least four thousand years old as indicated by attempts of the early Hindus to repair facial deformities with flap surgery. Tagliacozzi is given credit for the revival of flap procedures in plastic surgery during the 16th century. These methods were later refined and employed as the mucoperiosteal flap which is widely used today in oral surgical procedures.
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