Cleft patients frequently require a maxillary advancement surgery to correct the midface retrusion. The options are maxillary advancement by Le Fort osteotomy or distraction osteogenesis with external or intraoral devices….
Background and objectives: Bilateral cleft lip palate patients often present vertical and horizontal excess in the premaxilla, together with dental torque alterations, due to unrestrained premaxilla displacement and premaxillary-vomerine suture…
Background and objectives : Many techniques are available to repair clefts of the palate. Techniques involving substantial stripping of the palatal mucoperiosteum, lead to maxillary hypoplasia. Vomerine flaps have been…
Background and objectives : Oronasal fistulae (ONF) following cleft palate (CP) repair are challenging and associated with high recurrence rates. The aim of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of…
Background and objective : Octyl-2-cyanoacrylare is a synthetic adhesive recently applied for skin closure. Cleft lip repair is one of the most demanding of surgeries of head and neck. In…
Background and objectives : Cleft lip and palate (CLP) are congenital defects caused by defective fusion of the embryonic processes that participate in the formation of oral and nasal cavities….
Introduction/aims : Our aim is to demonstrate how the width of a cleft of the palate can be used to predict speech outcomes in children with cleft lip and palate….
Introduction/aims : Multiple Individual Audit Outcome Web (MIAOW) is a pictorial representation of outcomes and has been widely utilized in industry, finances and sports, but to our knowledge, not in…
Objective : This echocardio-graphic study aims to assess the incidence of cardiac abnormalities and their relevance to surgery amongst patients with oro-facial clefts. Materials and methods : A retrospective analysis…
Background and objectives : The diagnosis of Pierre Robin sequence (PRS) has always been controversial. A very large database (3791 cleft patients) with 237 cases of PRS, divided into the…
