“…Therefore, alternative techniques have been proposed, but are considered as being associated with a lower level of evidence. Among those techniques are the ’tailored’ lateral sphincterotomy [ 5 ], pneumatic balloon dilation [ 6 ], and foremost surgical techniques that do not divide the internal anal sphincter, namely, a subcutaneous fissurotomy [ 7 ], fissurectomy [ 8 , 9 ] and fissurectomy associated with anoplasty, the so-called V-Y cutaneous flap [ 10 ] or mucosal flap [ 9 , 11 ]. Many authors initially offered those techniques to patients with high risk of postoperative incontinence, such as elderly people, multiparous women, patients with normal anal tone, patients with chronic diarrhea of any origin, and patients who had undergone previous anorectal surgery.…”