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No. of Cases Seen in a Year

• Total Referrals: 55

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: 3 - 5 months
• Type of operation: Lip, Nose, vomerine flap - Sommerlad technique

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

• Timing: 3 - 5 months
• Type of operation: Bilateral Lip, Nose, vomerine flap - Sommerlad Technique

Cleft Palate Repair:

• Stages: One stage
• Timing: 7 - 9 months

Record collection protocol

Are records routinely collected at specific ages? Yes

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

Intercentre Collaboration Interested

Research

Want to particpate in research? yes

Participation in inter-centre studies?

Current Research

CLINICAL Research activities you would be happy to become involved in:

Randomised clinical trials?

Inter-centre comparison of outcome?

Prospective cohort studies?

DNA collection?

LABORATORY based research you would be happy to be involved in:

Laboratory genetics/genomics research

Animal models 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: Felicity Mehendale

Non-clinical and laboratory research

Non-clinical and laboratory team members who are or would like to be involved in clinical research:
Member details: Felicity Mehendale

National cleft lip and palate / craniofacial scientific organisation

Organisation details: Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland