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No. of Cases Seen in a Year

• Total Referrals: 38
• Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 10
• Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 6
• Cleft palate only: 22

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

• Surgery costs: All
• Speech and Language Therapy costs: All
• Orthodontic costs: Part

Primary surgical protocol

Cleft Lip Repair:

• Timing: 3 months
• Type of operation: Millard & Le Messeier

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

• Timing: 3 months
• Type of operation: Barsky

Cleft Palate Repair:

• Timing: 24 months
• Type of operation: Veau Wardil Kilner. If isolated cleft palate surgery anytime after 18 months

Record collection protocol

Are records routinely collected at specific ages? Yes

Does this conform to WHO recommendations for different cleft types? No

At birth, at operation and through the family doctor

Research

Want to particpate in research? yes

Participation in inter-centre studies?

Current Research

Clinical research activities interested in being involved in:

Randomised clinical trials:	Yes
Inter-centre comparison of outcome:	Yes
Prospective study:	Yes
DNA collection:	Yes

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Clinical research

Clinical team members who are or would like to be involved in clinical research:
Member details: Prof Dr Slave Naumovski - Maxillofacial surgery - Maxillofacial surgery
Dr Radmila Dimovska - Orthodontics - Orthodontics
Prof Dr Elena Sukarova - Clinical Genetics - Genetics
Prof Dr Marina Cakar - ENT - ENT
Prof Dr Gorica Levenska - Speech - Speech

Potential laboratory based research activities

Laboratory based research activities interested in being involved in:
Laboratory genetics/genomics research: Yes
Animal models research: Yes