Unilateral complete cleft lip and palate repair using lip adhesion combined with a passive intraoral alveolar molding appliance: surgical results and the effect on the maxillary alveolar arch

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Byung Chae Cho

Abstract

A number of combined maxillary orthopedic and surgical treatment protocols have been proposed for the initial phase of therapy for infants with a complete cleft lip and palate. Lip adhesion was used in combination with a passive intraoral molding appliance to treat a unilateral complete cleft lip and palate. The proposed protocols are lip adhesion, along with positioning of a passive alveolar molding appliance, at 4 to 6 weeks of age, then definitive cheiloplasty at 4 to 5 months of age, and palatoplasty at 12 months of age. Twenty-five patients with a complete cleft lip and palate were treated using this protocol between 1994 and 2003. The follow-up period was between 6 months and 10 years. The alveolar gap, the length of the maxillary alveolar cleft, and the palatal gap were 10.1 +/- 4.2 mm, 6.1 +/- 0.9 mm, and 13.4 +/- 2.9 mm for lip adhesion, 3.1 +/- 1.4 mm, 2.6 +/- 0.8 mm, and 9.6 +/- 1.5 mm for definitive cheiloplasty, and 0.2 +/- 0.1 mm, 1.5 +/- 0.7 mm, and 8.3 +/- 1.1 mm for palatoplasty. For the following maxillary dental casts for 3 to 10 year olds, the intercanine width and canine arch lengths were within the normal value. The intermolar width and the molar arch length, however, decreased slightly compared with the c...Continue Reading

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