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No. of Cases Seen in a Year

• Total Referrals: 8
• Bilateral (Two sided) cleft lip only: 1
• Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 1
• Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 2
• Cleft palate only: 6
• Pierre Robin Sequence: 1
• With anomalies present: 1

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

• Surgery costs: Part
• Speech and Language Therapy costs: None
• Orthodontic costs: None

Comment on the service provision:

Personal effort and interest of physicians

Primary surgical protocol

Cleft Lip Repair:

• Timing: 3 months

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

• Stages: Two stage
• 1st Stage Timing: 3 months
• 2nd Stage Timing: 6 months

Cleft Palate Repair:

• Timing: 12 months

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

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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Potential laboratory based research activities

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