1. Advantages of free flaps are their reliable blood supply and freedom of planning. 2. Surgical techniques for cleft palate in dogs include prosthesis, mucosal flaps, and microvascular free flaps . 3. Mycha's new face would require five free flaps , using skin from his thighs, abdomen and forearm. 4. Note that has also edited Free flap breast reconstruction, an article whose main contributor is Otto Placik. 5. Both pedicled and free flaps can be muscular or musculocutaneos ( the so-called " composite flaps " ). 6. If one free flap failed to attach and heal properly, the other four interlocked flaps would die in succession. 7. Larger defects may require repair with a skin graft, local skin flap, pedicled skin flap, or a microvascular free flap . 8. Usually, a microvascular anastomosis is performed at the second intercostal space to the artery on which the free flap is based. 9. Thanks to further refinements of microvascular techniques in the past three decades, transfer of a free flap is now a routine procedure. 10. Usually the harvest of a " free flap " is performed in such a fashion to cause the least amount of disability.
