International Task Force on Volunteer Cleft Missions.

The International Task Force on Volunteer Cleft Missions was set up to provide a report to be presented at the Eighth International Congress of Cleft Palate and Associated Craniofacial Anomalies on September 12, 1997, in Singapore. The aim of the report was to provide data from a wide range of different international teams performing volunteer cleft missions and, thereafter, based on the collected data, to identify common goals and aims of such missions. Thirteen different groups actively participating in volunteer cleft missions worldwide were selected from the International Confederation of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery's list of teams actively participating in volunteer cleft missions.

Urinary iodine excretion is the most appropriate outcome indicator for iodine deficiency at field conditions at district level.

To empower local authorities to plan and evaluate adequate interventions, appropriate iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) indicators need to be identified. The aim of this study was to describe the magnitude and severity of IDD with different outcome indicators and associate them with functional indicators. Schoolchildren (n = 544) aged 8-10 y were assessed in 11 villages within five subdistricts of Malang District, East Java, Indonesia.

Dental arch dimensions in unoperated adult cleft-palate patients: an analysis of 37 cases.

In surgically treated patients with clefts of the lip, alveolus, and/or palate, the vertical, transversal, and sagittal development of the maxilla is influenced by intrinsic, functional, and iatrogeneous (surgical) factors. To evaluate the effect of intrinsic and functional factors on dental arch development, we examined and compared unoperated adult individuals with different types of clefts. Dental casts of 37 Indonesian adults with unoperated unilateral clefts were studied: 15 subjects with unilateral cleft lip and alveolus (median age: 24 years) and 22 subjects with complete unilateral cleft of lip, alveolus, and palate (median age: 25 years).

Dental cast study of adult patients with untreated unilateral cleft lip or cleft lip and palate in indonesia compared with surgically treated patients in The Netherlands.

To determine differences in maxillary and dentoalveolar relationships between untreated and treated patients having unilateral clefts of the lip and alveolus (UCLA) or lip and palate (UCLP), dental cast assessments were done on 70 untreated adult Indonesian patients (UCLA-I, UCLP-I) and 67 Dutch patients, surgically treated in infancy (UCLA-D, UCLP-D). The Indonesian group consisted of 44 UCLA-I and 26 UCLP-I patients, and the Dutch group of 24 UCLA-D and 43 UCLP-D patients. In the UCLA-I patients, deformities occurred in that part of the dentoalveolar complex that surrounds the cleft.