OBJECTIVE To assess dental age in children with a complete unilateral cleft lip and palate and to compare this with a noncleft control group. DESIGN Two-group, mixed-longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Cleft group from an academic center for cleft lip and palate treatment. Noncleft control group from the same population. PATIENTS Participants included 70 Caucasian children with a full comp...

Compliance with primary surgical treatment in people with cleft lip and palate is a well-known problem, especially in developing countries fraught with poverty and ignorance. Different protocols of treatment exist. In this paper, we retrospectively review a cohort from two centres, with a discussion on the outcome and its implications. The records of all patients with cleft lip and palate seen ...

The aim of this study was to assess hypoplasia in permanent maxillary anterior dentition. The sample for this study consisted of 60 subjects divided into two groups: Group 1 consisted of 30 subjects with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate. Group 2 consisted of 30 subjects with complete bilateral cleft lip and palate (both males and females). Informed consent was taken from all patients. I...

BACKGROUND The optimal time to create symmetry in a cleft lip is during primary repair; a secondary effort later is more difficult due to potential scarring and possible tissue deficiency of the repaired cleft lip. A plethora of methods for secondary correction have been described that have the goal of constructing the philtral column, ameliorating bad scar results, and augmenting lip volume, f...

OBJECTIVE   The first part of this study validated an automated computer-based method of identifying the three-dimensional midfacial plane in children with unrepaired cleft lip. The purpose of this second part is to develop computer-based methods to quantify symmetry and to determine the correlation of these measures to clinical expectations. PARTICIPANTS   A total of 35 infants with unrepair...

introduction: cleft lip (cl) and cleft palate (cp) are among the most common congenital anomalies. constituting 65% of head and neck anomalies in isolated or syndromic forms, they are considered as the most common head and neck congenital deformities in children. methods: 15 children from the tabriz children hospital were evaluated in this descriptive-analytic cross sectional study that possess...

OBJECTIVES Children with cleft lip and palate universally present with otitis media with effusion. This prevalence has not been systematically studied. The purpose of the present study was to examine and compare the prevalence of otitis media with effusion, hearing sensitivity, and audiometry method utilised for assessment in children with and without clefts. METHODS Two groups of children (c...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were to investigate whether there were different caries levels in 3- to 6-year-old Chinese children who had a cleft lip compared to those with a cleft lip/palate. The goal also was to evaluate parental attitudes toward the feeding habits and oral health care for their children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out through a dental examination of a sam...

In a fraction of patients surgically treated for cleft lip/palate, excessive scarring disturbs maxillary growth and dento-alveolar development. Since certain genes are involved in craniofacial morphogenesis as well as tissue repair, a primary defect causing cleft lip/palate could lead to altered wound healing. We performed in vitro wound healing assays with primary lip fibroblasts from 16 cleft...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to improve and evaluate cleft lip/palate face models to give support information to the parents whose children have cleft lip/palate. MATERIAL AND METHOD Cleft lip/palate face models are made from a mold of about the same size as a child'head using rubber, wood and silicone and can be separated into parts to match the severity of the disease. The auth...