No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 3
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 3
  • Pierre Robin Sequence: 4

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: 4-6 months
  • Type of operation: Sometimes with alveolus closure. Tennison-Randall, Delaire, Skoog, Millard

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 4-6 months
  • Type of operation: Tennison-Randall, Delaire, Skoog, Millard

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Stages: Two stage
  • 1st Stage Timing: 4-6 months
  • 1st Stage Type of operation: Sometimes two stage undertaken with lip repair - Veau-Manchester
  • 2nd Stage Timing: 10-12 months
  • 2nd Stage Type of operation: Veau-Kriens

Record collection protocol


Are records routinely collected at specific ages? Yes

Does this conform to WHO recommendations for different cleft types? Yes

Research

Want to particpate in research? yes

Participation in inter-centre studies?

Current Research

Willing to share Powerpoint presentations: Yes

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: Prof. Spitzer - OMF -
Dr. Landau, Dr. Thumser - OMF -

Potential laboratory based research activities

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