Pre-surgical orthopedic appliances are mainly used to retract and align the protruded and deviated pre-maxilla and to facilitate initial lip repair. This article presents a case report of a five year old male child patient with bilateral cleft lip and palate in whom a special custom made pre-surgical orthopedic appliance was delivered. Use of a special custom made presurgical orthopedic appliance for repositioning pre-maxilla in bilateral cleft lip and palate patient is discussed in this article.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3532808 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-237X.103638 | DOI Listing |
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