Cleft lip and palate are common and distressing human birth defects but much still needs to be learnt about the care and management of the conditions and the long-term consequences of the treatment. This work provides a forum for the development of better understanding of the problems involved and for better new ideas to be developed to significantly improve the treatment of this condition. All aspects including plastic surgery, speech therapy, oral and maxillofacial surgery, growth and psychology and paediatrics are analyzed and discussed, as well as treatment failures and prosthetic rehabilitation. This first volume, concentrating on the early years, is divided into three parts. The first deals with the embryology and epidemiology of these conditions and addresses the social and psychological problems of the newborn; the second considers timing and sequence of lip and palate repair, long-term results of primary bone grafting, periosteoplasty and lip surgery, and the third section, on speech, surgery and growth, analyzes these three aspects and their interrelationships. The work includes discussions between experts with differing viewpoints and sometimes controversial opinions.
It will be a useful reference for those involved in the treatment of cleft lip and palate patients including plastic surgeons, orthodontists, speech therapists, paediatricians, psychologists, radiologists and medical geneticists.
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978-0-7190-3231-8 (9780719032318)
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Part 1 The presurgical period: facial clefting in antiquity (abstract); longitudinal growth studies of craniofacial anomalies 1949-83 - what have we learned; a national cleft palate team - long-term experience from Copenhagen (abstract); developmental mechanisms in facial embryology (abstract); facial clefts and twins in Denmark; social attitudes to facial clefting; paedriatric aspects of pre-surgical care; individual assessment during presurgical jaw-orthopaedics in infants with unilateral cleft lip and palate; dental arch relationships in two groups of complete unilateral cleft lip and palate patients - a cross-centre study with special consideration of the value of presurgical orthopaedics; presurgical treatment - long-term advantages; neonatal maxillary orthopaedics - a dissent. Part 2 Initial Surgery: the adverse affects of periosteolasty; craniofacial growth and dental occlusion in bilateral cleft lip and palate patients after infant periosteoplasty to the alveolar cleft-a longitudinal study to the age of 19 years; long-term results of cleft lip repair; primary correction of the unilateral cleft lip nose - a preliminary report; surgery of cleft lip in the neo-natal period; a new sequence for operative intervention in cases of complete cleft lip and palate; problems in cleft lip repair; the surgical technique of early radical repair of cleft lip and palate deformities; simultaneous lip and palate repair - a long-term evaluation; in defence of early bone grafting; primary bone grafting - a long-term assessment. Part 3 Speech, surgery an growth: titanium plates to repair cranial defects - an introduction; craniofacial growth and growth prediction; intrauterine interception and corection of craniofacial malformations; a retropective study of adult clefts treated by the Le Fort 11 osteotomy; a retropective view - speech results and surgical timing over the past four decades; early or late surgery of the hard palate? a preliminary repart on comparison of speech results; surgery, speech and growth; surgery for speech; techniques of assessment for surgery of the velopharyngeal isthmus; simultaneous ultrasound and videoflouroscopic evaluation of lateral nasopharygeal wall motion during speech; prediction of craniofacial growth in cleft lip and palate; development of maxillary deformity.
