No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 30
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 11
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 4
  • Cleft palate only: 15
  • With anomalies present: 3

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

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

Primary surgical protocol


Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: At Birth

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: At Birth

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Timing: 6 months

Record collection protocol


Are records routinely collected at specific ages? Yes

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

What record taking protocol is used: Birth, 1, 4, 7, 10, and 15

Research

Want to particpate in research? yes

Participation in inter-centre studies?

Clinical research activities interested in being involved in:

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




Clinical research

Clinical team members who are or would like to be involved in clinical research:
Member details: Jiad Mcheik - Chirurgie pédiatrique -