School absence and achievement in children with isolated orofacial clefts.

Objectives: To examine school absence and academic achievement among 7-year-old children with isolated orofacial clefts in England.

Design: Analysis of educational data linked to national cleft registry and administrative hospital data.

Setting: English state schools.

Is There a Correlation Between Nasolabial Appearance and Dentoalveolar Relationships in Patients With Repaired Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate?

Objective: To determine whether a relationship exists between the aesthetic scores given to photographic records of the nasolabial region of patients with repaired unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) and the 5-Year Olds' Index scores of study models for the same participants.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: University of Bristol Dental Hospital, United Kingdom.

Outcome Measures in UCLP: The Modified 5-Year-Olds'-Index-Development and Reliability.

Objective: Can we reliably discriminate severity within the existing categories of the 5-Year-Olds' Index?

Design: Retrospective method comparison and development study.

Setting: School of Oral and Dental Science, University of Bristol.

Methods: Dental study models of 5-year-olds with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) were collected from the archives of 2 national cleft surveys (n = 351).

Early academic achievement in children with isolated clefts: a population-based study in England.

Objectives: We used national data to study differences in academic achievement between 5-year-old children with an isolated oral cleft and the general population. We also assessed differences by cleft type.

Methods: Children born in England with an oral cleft were identified in a national cleft registry.

Grommet Surgery in Children With Orofacial Clefts in England.

Objective: To assess grommet insertion practice in the first 5 years of life among children with an orofacial cleft in England.

Design: Analysis of national administrative data of hospital admissions.

Setting: National Health Service hospitals, England.

Powered versus manual toothbrushing for oral health.

Background: Removing dental plaque may play a key role maintaining oral health. There is conflicting evidence for the relative merits of manual and powered toothbrushing in achieving this. This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in 2003, and previously updated in 2005.

Hospital care of children with a cleft in England.

Objective: To analyse hospital admissions in the first 2 years of life among children with cleft lip and/or palate in England.

Design: Analysis of national administrative data of hospital admissions.

Setting: National Health Service hospitals.

Hospital admissions for dental treatment among children with cleft lip and/or palate born between 1997 and 2003: an analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics in England.

Background: Children with clefts have an increased tendency for dental anomalies and caries.

Aim: To determine the pattern of hospital admissions for dental treatment during primary dentition among children with clefts.

Design: Cohort study based on Hospital Episode Statistics, an administrative database of all admissions to National Health Service hospitals in England.

Centralisation of services for children with cleft lip or palate in England: a study of hospital episode statistics.

Background: In 1998, a process of centralisation was initiated for services for children born with a cleft lip or palate in the UK. We studied the timing of this process in England according to its impact on the number of hospitals and surgeons involved in primary surgical repairs.

Methods: All live born patients with a cleft lip and/or palate born between April 1997 and December 2008 were identified in Hospital Episode Statistics, the database of admissions to English National Health Service hospitals.

Secondary bone grafting for alveolar cleft in children with cleft lip or cleft lip and palate.

Background: Secondary alveolar bone grafting has been widely used to reconstruct alveolar cleft. However, there is still some controversy.

Objectives: To compare the effectiveness and safety of different secondary bone grafting methods.

Different powered toothbrushes for plaque control and gingival health.

Background: Powered brushes were first introduced commercially in the 1960s. A recent systematic review suggested the superiority of certain modes of powered over manual toothbrushing for plaque and gingivitis reduction. That review did not allow for direct comparison between different modes of powered toothbrush.

Alveolar bone grafting: results of a national outcome study.

Introduction: In 1998, the Clinical Standards Advisory Group (CSAG) report demonstrated a successful radiographic outcome of 58%, for alveolar bone grafting, from 157 cases of unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) in children aged 12 years. No further national studies have assessed the current level of radiographic outcome following the re-organisation of cleft services since the recommendations from the CSAG report.

Patients And Methods: In 2008, radiographic images were requested for alveolar bone grafts performed in calendar year 2006 from each of the now established UK cleft centres.