Correction of secondary deformities of the cleft lip nose.

Converse : Chapter 47 Secondary Deformities of Cleft Lip , Cleft Lip and Nose , and Cleft Palate

The diversity of secondary deformities following repair of the cleft lip and nose is striking. The deformities reflect the wide variety of surgical techniques used to repair the cleft lip and the cleft lip nose. Secondary deformities of the repaired cleft lip and nose result from several distinct but related components: congenitally abnormal tissues; surgically modified tissues; the innate tend...

Surgical Strategy for Secondary Correction of Unilateral and Bilateral Cleft Lip-Nose Deformities

Functional and aesthetic correction of secondary unilateral cleft lip nasal deformities

The treatment of patients with unilateral cleft lip has undergone significant development during the last decades. With better understanding of the anatomy of the unilateral cleft lip and nasal deformities, primary correction of the nasal deformity at the time of lip repair, critical evaluation of short and long-term results following various treatment protocols, and constant striving for perfe...

Nasoalveolar Molding: A new Method for Cleft Lip and Palate Rehabilitation

Introduction: Cleft lip and palate is a congenital anomaly occurring in 3 in 1000 live birth. One the major concern in this patient is about cleft gap and its surgical problems. Several surgical and non-surgical procedures have been done to decrease this gap. They aimed to achieve the more esthetic results as well as feeding success. Nasoalveolar Molding (NAM) is a new method for reshaping nasa...

Primary unilateral cleft lip-nose repair: the Tawanchai cleft center's integrated and functional reconstruction.

BACKGROUND The challenges of previously described techniques in unilateral cleft lip repairs inadequately address all deformities of the primary palate, the problems of scar and secondary deformities and achievement of optimum outcome. OBJECTIVE To propose the integrated and functional reconstruction of primary unilateral cleft lip-nose repair and to present the preliminary outcome and advant...