Revisiting Mehendale’s needle holder for cleft palate surgery: A gift from the bygone era

Revisiting Mehendale's needle holder for cleft palate surgery: A gift from the bygone era

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Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery

The treatment of cleft lip and palate deformities requires thoughtful consideration of the anatomic complexities of the deformity and the delicate balance between intervention and growth. Comprehensive and coordinated care from infancy through adolescence is essential in order to achieve an ideal outcome, and surgeons with formal training and experience in all of the phases of care must be acti...

Anaesthesia for cleft lip and palate surgery

The presence of a cleft lip, cleft palate or both, has a huge impact on the life of an individual and their family. Modern management has much to offer these people, revolutionizing appearance and functional defects to a point where they may be difficult to detect. Surgery aims to correct the anatomically obvious cleft lip, augment normal dento-alveolar development and lead to effective palatal...

A Holder Needle.

THE finest movements of surgery are made with the fingers and thumb, not with the wrist and hand as a whole. In the usual method of suturing, the needle is grasped by the needle-holder which is held more or less in the palm of the hand. The fine, sharp needles of ophthalmic surgery, such as those made by Grieshaber, inevitably become dulled as they are grasped by the metal blades of the needle-...

A Novel Tool to Prevent Endotracheal Tube Compression in Cleft Palate Surgery