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The buccal cerclage suture. A. The key suture in the buccal cerclage technique. The suture is placed in a stair step pattern with 6 bites along the SMAS of the lower face and affixed to the immobile peri-parotid SMAS. B. The buccal cerclage suture is tightened lifting the SMAS in a vertical vector.
