The deformity of the bilateral cleft lip is complicated. The routine procedure often results in secondary deformities, such as over-tight lip, and over-thin vermilion. The paper introduces a modified straight-line procedure that has been used in 16 patients with satisfactory results. This one-stage procedure employed a nasolabial flap and two small triangular flaps to lessen the tension of sutrue and lengthen the anterior lip as well as create a natural feature of the vermillion border. The method overcame imperfection of routine ones and achieved functional repair of the lip that would facilitate the development of the columella and anterior lip.
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J Craniofac Surg
January 2025
Department of Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO.
Introduction: Single-stage bilateral cleft lip repair may require preoperative naso-alveolar molding (NAM) to decrease cleft widths and reposition the premaxilla. Staged operations may be performed in centers or regions without easy access to NAM. This retrospective study aims to examine the national prevalence of single-stage and staged bilateral cleft lip repairs over the past 23 years.
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January 2025
Seattle Children's Hospital, Craniofacial Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
Objective: To investigate whether differences in early cleft care increase risk of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) after maxillary advancement.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Setting: Large pediatric tertiary care hospital.
Aim: This study investigated the accuracy of intraoral scanner (IOS) based on different image acquisition technologies in the field of presurgical-orthopedictreatment (PSOT) in neonates with cleft.
Methods: Dental cast models of clinical situations representing unilateral cleft-lip-palate(UCLP), bilateral cleft-lippalate( BCLP) and cleft-palate(CP) with reference PEEK-scanbodies (Cares RC Mono-Scankörper, Straumann, Switzerland) were scanned utilizing four IOS systems: CareStream-CS3600®(CS), Medit-i500®(MD), Cerec-Omnicam®(SO), 3Shape-Trios-3®(TS). One calibrated operator made 5 scans from each model using each IOS (N=60).
J Prosthodont
January 2025
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Lokman Hekim University, Ankara, Turkey.
Purpose: Feeding plates for cleft palate patients have been used by clinicians for many years to temporarily close the oro-nasal communication until definitive treatment with surgical techniques. The current in vitro study aimed to evaluate the adaptation of the feeding plates manufactured by two different techniques for three cleft types.
Materials And Methods: Feeding plates were manufactured with conventional compression molding (CM) and 3-dimensional (3D) additive manufacturing on main models representing bilateral cleft, unilateral right, and unilateral left cleft types (n = 10).
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