"Primary anterior septoplasty in a cleft repair improves deviation of the anterior septum but not that of the posterior bone structure.".

Background: Evaluation of the result on the nasal septum (NS) of primary anterior septoplasty in cleft surgery is lacking. The deviation in patients with a cleft between those with (S+) and without (S-) primary anterior septoplasty during a cleft lip repair was compared.

Methods: This was a retrospective, descriptive, single-center study.

Evaluation of Alveolar Bone Reconstruction In Clefts With Early Or Late Secondary Bone Grafting: Use Of The 3d Kamperos score.

There is still no consensus on the optimal age for alveolar grafting. In order to decide on the success of this graft, the best known radiographic assessments lacks precision. Kamperos recently proposed a 3D CBCT score that simultaneously assesses alveolar bone height and thickness, as well as the nasal floor level.

Early effect of vomerine flap closure of the hard palate at the time of lip repair on the alveolar gap and other maxillary dimensions.

Objective: Comparison of the effects of vomerine flap (VF) closure of the hard palate at the time of lip repair with non-closure of the hard palate in subjects with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP).

Design: Retrospective, single-blinded, cohort study.

Setting: Study model sets of 40 consecutive, non-syndromic, infants with complete UCLP operated on between 1988 and 1998.

Early surgical excision of giant congenital hemangiomas of the scalp in newborns: clinical indications and reconstructive aspects.

Background: Infantile hemangioma is the most common vascular tumor in newborns, with an incidence from 12 to 23% among preterm infants with low weight at birth and a female to male ratio of 3:1. The head and neck is the most frequently affected area (60%), and the scalp is a typical site for such large lesions.

Objective: We describe some clinical and medical aspects in comparison with the surgical approach to giant infantile hemangioma of the scalp.

Surgical management of macroglossia: discussion of 7 cases.

Objective: We present an overview of international literature concerning macroglossia-related etiology, clinical and instrumental diagnoses, surgical treatments, complications, and recurrences. Moreover, we present a series of cases of patients affected by macroglossia who have been treated surgically at the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery of the University of Rome "La Sapienza".

Methods: Between 1990 and 1999, only after attempts to solve this pathologic condition with medical and orthodontic treatment, we treated surgically a total of 7 patients (4 male and 3 female).