Classification of cheek carcinomas
From the aesthetic point of view, the cheek region can be divided into
three overlapping aesthetic zones including the suborbital (I), the
preauricular (II), and the bucco-mandibular (III)
zone.9 Anatomically, the cheek consists (from inside
to outside) of buccal mucosa, submucosa, loose connective tissue,
muscles, the parotid gland in zone II and III, and the skin. Depending
on the extent of resection and consequently the depth of defect,
patients were dichotomized into patients with partial or
through-and-through (full) defects.