OBJECTIVE This case report describes the clinical and surgical management of a patient with a unilateral alveolar cleft and associated extremely atrophied totally edentulous maxilla. METHOD Two zygomatic implants and four endosseous oral implants were placed under general anesthesia in a compromised maxilla to rehabilitate a 33-year-old patient with cleft lip and palate. The two specially des...

Background: Current evidence on factors influencing the outcome of Secondary Alveolar Bone Grafting (SABG) in cleft lip/palate patients is ambiguous and further deliberations are required to provide solid proof on prognostic criteria. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to determine the changes brought about by SABG in cleft depth and alveolar bone support of teeth in the vicinity of ...

Bone grafting to repair an alveolar cleft has long been an integral part of the treatment of persons with unilateral and bilateral clefts of the lip and alveolus. The presence of the cleft places a limitation on the orthodontist who would like to move teeth in the area of the cleft. Various grafting materials have been placed in alveolar clefts in an attempt to solve this problem. The case to b...

BACKGROUND Median cleft lip is a rare anomaly consisting of a midline vertical cleft through the upper lip. It can also involve the premaxillary bone, the nasal septum, and the central nervous system. In our current report, we present the clinical features of 6 patients with a median cleft lip and their surgical management according to the accompanying anomalies. METHODS From December 2010 to...

This case report aimed to present the course of surgically combined comprehensive orthodontic treatment a male adult with cleft lip and palate, showing left alveolar cleft, lateral deviation major segment maxilla, palatal transposition incisor. Preoperatively, midline upper central incisors was shifted by 7.0 mm right, right incisor showed transposition, residual 6.5 mm. Segmental Le Fort I ost...

Bilateral cleft lip and palate patients sometimes accompany with mal-positioned premaxilla, which adversely affect the upper lip morphology, especially widened naso-labial angle as well as functional deteriorations such as speech impairment though the fistula in between the alveolar segments. Usefulness of simultaneous premaxillary osteotomy and bone grafting was tested in respect of grafted bo...

BACKGROUND To assess the success of the uptake of bone graft in cleft alveolus of the cleft lip and palate patients, quantitatively through computed tomography (CT) scan 6 months postoperative. To assess the successful eruption of permanent lateral incisor or canine in the bone grafted area. MATERIALS AND METHODS The children age group of 9-21 years with unilateral cleft lip and palate came t...

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2002;15:250–254 Acleft lip/palate deformity occurs in approximately one in every 700 live births in the USA (1). Jaw growth in the population of patients with unrepaired cleft lip and palate is generally favorable (2–6). No significant difference exists between patients with and those without such deformities in the distribution of vertical or anteroposterior skeletal jaw relat...

BACKGROUND Recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein (rhBMP)-2 has been used as an alternative to autologous bone transferring, a standard method of treatment. However, its potential adverse effect on anterior maxillary arch is unknown. Thus, the purpose of this study was to quantify sagittal and transversal changes of anterior maxilla after secondary alveolar cleft repair using traditional ...