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Buccal Fat Pad in Maxillary Reconstruction

2007; Elsevier BV; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.cxom.2006.11.003

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Kevin Arce,

Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments

Lorenz Heister first identified the buccal fat pad in 1727. He thought it was glandular in nature and identified it as the "glandula molaris" in his Compendium Anatomicum. Marie-Francois-Xavier Bichat in 1801 was the first to provide its anatomic description as a fatty tissue. Since then it has been referred to in the medical literature by different names including the "boule de Bichat," masticatory fat pad, sucking pad, and sucking cushion.