cleft lip and cleft palate are one of the most frequent congenital anomalies worldwide. this study was conducted in order to measure the frequency of cleft lip and palate among live births in akbar abadi hospital. this is a descriptive study, dealing with 57526 cases of live birth out of 59477 medical files in akbar abadi hospital from 2004 to 2008. all the collected data were recorded in speci...

Several authors have proposed classifications to analyze the quality over time of secondary alveolar bone grafting. However, little discussion has been held to quantitatively measure the secondary bone grafting for correction of nasal deformity associated to cleft palate and lip. Twenty patients with unilateral alveolar cleft, who underwent secondary alveolar bone grafting, were studied with 3D...

A one-stage procedure to reconstruct complete and incomplete unilateral/bilateral cleft lip and nose deformities is presented. Emphasis was made on closure of the lip muscles, correction of the nostril floor, correction of the alveolar cleft as well as reconstruction of the nose through an intranasal approach, with a supported suture technique for nasal correction. No dental or orthodontic trea...

a 39-year-old pregnant woman at 38 weeks of gestation was referred with labor pain to a hospital. she had consanguinity with her husband. a female newborn had multiple craniofacial anomalies and phocomelia in right upper limb. the disease locus was assigned to chromosome17q21. four days later, infant died of cardiopulmonary arrest.

To investigate the feasibility of facial laser scanning in pre-school children and to demonstrate landmark-independent three-dimensional (3D) analyses for assessment of facial deformity in 5-year-old children with repaired non-syndromic unilateral cleft lip and/or cleft palate (UCL/P). Faces of twelve 5-year-old children with UCL/P (recruited from university hospitals in Cardiff and Swansea, UK...

The anatomical studies of Veau laid the foundation for our present understanding of cleft lip and palate (Veau, 1926, 1931, 1935). His embryologic research into the pathogenesis of cleft lip and palate in the human is a classic study (Veau and Politzer, 1936). Veau recognized that unilateral and bilateral cleft conditions showed a characteristic skeletal deformity that was consistently uniform ...

Aim: Cleft lip and palate (CLP) deformity is the most common type of craniofacial malformation usually corrected surgically in infancy. Anesthetic management children undergoing CLP repair has many challenges. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate effect prognostic factors on perioperative complications with cleft (CP) repair.
 Methods: pediatric cases who underwent surgery a tertiary ca...

Presurgical orthopedics forms an integral part of the treatment of patients with facial clefting. The primary aim of presurgical nasoalveolar moulding (PNAM) is reduction in the soft tissue and cartilaginous deformity to facilitate surgical soft tissue repair in optimal conditions under minimum tension to minimize scar formation. It also helps in reducing the nasal deformity with a nasal stent ...