Reliability and Predictive Validity of Dental Arch Relationships Using the 5-Year-Olds' Index and the GOSLON Yardstick to Determine Facial Growth.

Aims: To determine reliability and predictive validity of the 5-year-olds'(5YO) Index and GOSLON Yardstick in 119 patients born with unilateral cleft lip and palate at 5, 7/8, 10, 15/16, and 19 years.

Methods: Five hundred thirty-four dental study models were appraised by 2 teams in 2 centers, twice in each center. Intrateam and interteam reliability in scoring the models was calculated using κ.

Effect of Maxillary Osteotomy on Speech in Cleft Lip and Palate: Instrumental Outcomes of Velopharyngeal Function.

Objective: To investigate the effect of maxillary osteotomy on velopharyngeal function in cleft lip and palate (CLP) using instrumental measures.

Design: A prospective study.

Participants: A consecutive series of 20 patients with CLP undergoing maxillary osteotomy by a single surgeon were seen at 0 to 3 months presurgery (T1), 3 months (T2), and 12 months (T3) post-surgery.

Mean GOSLON Yardstick Scores After 3 Different Treatment Protocols-A Long-term Study of Patients With Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate.

Objectives: (1) To evaluate dental arch relationships, with the Great Ormond Street, London and Oslo (GOSLON) Yardstick, of participants with Unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) and treated with 1-stage palatal closure with 3 different surgical protocols (2) to compare the mean GOSLON ratings with other CLP centers.

Design: Retrospective study of medical charts and dental models.

Setting: Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.

Segmental maxillary distraction with a novel device for closure of a wide alveolar cleft.

Treatment of a wide alveolar cleft with initial application of segmental distraction osteogenesis is reported, in order to minimise cleft size prior to secondary alveolar bone grafting. The lesser maxillary segment was mobilised with osteotomy at Le Fort I level and, a novel distractor, facilitated horizontal movement of the dental/alveolar segment along the curvature of the maxillary dental arch. Following a latency period of 4 days distraction was applied for 7 days at a rate of 0.

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.

Presurgical orthopedics has no effect on archform in unilateral cleft lip and palate.

Objective: Evaluation of the effect of presurgical orthopedics on maxillary archform up to 6 months of age. DeSIGN: Retrospective, single-blinded, case-control study.

Participants: Study model sets of 75 infants with consecutive, nonsyndromic, complete unilateral cleft lip and palate (excluding Simonart bands) from 1995 to 2005.

The GOSLON yardstick in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate: review of a Vienna sample.

Objective: To compare a Vienna unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) patient sample with the Eurocleft samples using the GOSLON score, to determine the intra- and interrater agreement between several raters and ratings, and to establish whether training with the original GOSLON models enhances accuracy.

Patients And Methods: One hundred twenty-three plaster casts of UCLP patients born between 1970 and 1997, with an average age of 9.2 years and all treated with the same regimen, were rated according to the GOSLON score.

The nature of feeding in infants with unrepaired cleft lip and/or palate compared with healthy noncleft infants.

Objective: Feeding difficulties are reported widely in infants with cleft lip and/ or palate. There is, however, a paucity of objective information about the feeding patterns of these infants. This study compared patterns of feeding in infants with unrepaired cleft lip and palate with healthy noncleft infants of a similar age.

Process and outcome study of multidisciplinary prosthetic treatment for velopharyngeal dysfunction.

Background: A prosthetic approach to velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD) is not new. However, a collaborative interdisciplinary team approach by a speech-and-language therapist, dental specialist and maxillofacial technician, including accurate fitting using nasendoscopy, has provided an opportunity to define the clinical care pathway, and audit the outcomes of this intervention. Systematic outcome studies of the effectiveness of prosthetic appliances are few and largely anecdotal.

Hard palate repair timing and facial growth in unilateral cleft lip and palate: a longitudinal study.

Objective: To investigate whether timing of hard palate repair had a significant effect on facial growth in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP).

Design: Retrospective longitudinal study.

Setting: Sri Lankan Cleft Lip and Palate Project.

Complete unilateral cleft lip and palate: validity of the five-year index and the Goslon yardstick in predicting long-term dental arch relationships.

Objective: To assess the validity of the 5-year index by subjecting study models at the age of 5 years to both the 5-year index and the Goslon yardstick, and then relating these results to the Goslon ratings at 10 years.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Analysis of dental arch relationships in Swedish unilateral cleft lip and palate subjects: 20-year longitudinal consecutive series treated with delayed hard palate closure.

Objective: To evaluate the dental arch relationships for a consecutive series from Goteborg, Sweden, who had delayed hard palate closure.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg, Sweden.

Hard palate repair timing and facial growth in cleft lip and palate: a systematic review.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of timing of hard palate repair on facial growth in patients with cleft lip and palate, with special reference to cranial base, maxilla, mandible, jaw relation, and incisor relation.

Design: A systematic review.

Methods: The search strategy was based on the key words "facial growth," "cleft lip palate," and "timing of (hard) palate repair.

Hard palate repair timing and facial morphology in unilateral cleft lip and palate: Before versus after pubertal peak velocity age.

Objective: To investigate whether timing of hard palate repair, before versus after pubertal peak velocity age, had a significant effect on facial growth in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate.

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Setting: Sri Lankan Cleft Lip and Palate Project.

X-linked hypophosphatemia: dental and histologic findings.

The recurrent spontaneous formation of abscesses affecting multiple noncarious primary as well as permanent teeth is the principle clinical dental feature in cases of hypophosphatemia, a condition inherited through the X chromosome. Patients often have high pulp horns, large pulp chambers and dentinal clefts. We report a case of hypophosphatemic vitamin D-resistant rickets in a patient who reported to our department on multiple occasions with spontaneous abscesses in relation to his primary teeth.

Long-term effects of clefts on craniofacial morphology in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate.

Objective: To identify the long-term effects of clefts (intrinsic and functional) on craniofacial growth and to evaluate the possible association between the sizes of the cleft maxillary segment (intrinsic) and alveolar cleft (functional) and the craniofacial morphology in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP).

Design: Retrospective case-control study.

Setting: Sri Lankan Cleft Lip and Palate Project.

Long-term effects of palate repair on craniofacial morphology in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate.

Objective: To identify the long-term effects of palate repair on craniofacial growth in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP).

Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Setting: Sri Lankan Cleft Lip and Palate Project.

Long-term effects of lip repair on dentofacial morphology in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate.

Objective: Lateral cephalograms from the growth archive of the Sri Lankan Cleft Lip and Palate Project were analyzed in a cohort design to study the long-term effects of lip repair on dentofacial morphology in patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate.

Methods: A total of 71 patients were recruited, including 23 adult patients with nonsyndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate without surgical repair and 48 adult patients with nonsyndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate who had lip repair, but without management of alveolus or anterior vomer. The design utilized exact matching on ethnicity and statistical control for gender and age.

A pilot study of the effects of transpalatal maxillary advancement on velopharyngeal closure in cleft palate patients.

Background And Aims: Impaired velopharyngeal closure function is sometimes a complication of a standard Le Fort I maxillary advancement in cleft palate patients. The transpalatal Le Fort I osteotomy has been suggested as an alternative technique that may avoid this problem. The aim of this pilot study was to examine the effects of the transpalatal approach on velopharyngeal function in a series of cleft palate patients.