Nasoalveolar molding of bilateral cleft of the lip and palate infants with orthopaedic ring plate.

Objective: To introduce a simple, self-retentive and cost effective presurgical infant orthopaedic plate with anterior ring to retract and align the grossly protruded and deviated pre-maxilla and to perform the nasoalveolar moulding in order to facilitate initial lip repair.

Method: The study was conducted in the orthodontic department of dental section of CH & ICH Lahore. The nonprobable purposive sample consisted of 35 subjects (27 males, 8 females) with a median age of 7 days (1-13 days).

Premaxillay retraction in bilateral complete cleft lip and palate with custom made orthopaedic plate having anterior acrylic ring.

Objective: To determine retraction and alignment of protruded and rotated premaxillary segment and to measure increase in columellar length by using modified orthopaedic plate with anterior acrylic ring in newborn babies with non syndromic bilateral cleft lip and palate.

Methods: Pre surgical infant orthopaedic treatment of ten non syndromic bilateral cleft lip and palate new born babies was done. Modified orthopaedic plate with anterior acrylic ring was used.

Autotransplantation of transmigrated mandibular canine.

Transplantation is the transfer of tissue or an organ from one site to another in the same person or between different persons. A transplantation in which donor and recipient are the same individual has been termed as autogenous transplantation, autoplastic transplantation, or autotransplantation. The purpose of this report was to describe a patient undergoing auto transplantation of an impacted mandibular canine to its normal position in the dental arch and the 1 1/2-year follow-up, with no sign of active inflammatory resorption or a periapical lesion.