Using 501c3 Foundations in the Care of Cleft and Craniofacial Children.

This article relates to the use of 501c3 foundations in the care of patients with cleft and craniofacial disorders. Both authors are medical directors and founders of foundations that serve these children: A Smile for a Child Foundation was set up to help children locally; Free to Smile was set up as an international missions foundation. This article explores the advantages and disadvantages of each type of foundation as well as the struggles and successes foundations face to help children locally and internationally.

Presurgical Dentofacial Orthopedic Management of the Cleft Patient.

Over the last decade, presurgical orthopedic molding for the patient with cleft lip and palate has become much more common; it is even reasonable to assume it may be the standard of care for those wide unilateral and bilateral clefts with substantial dentofacial deformities. In 2013, there was a comparative study of nasoalveolar molding methods, comparing the Grayson-NAM device and DynaCleft. The results showed the 2 to be equivocal with both methods significantly reducing the cleft width and improving the nasal asymmetry.