No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 60
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 40
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 10
  • Cleft palate only: 10
  • Pierre Robin Sequence: 1

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

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

Comment on the service provision:

Very good quality service provision is provided

Primary surgical protocol


Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 3-9 months
  • Type of operation: Millard technic (Mohler's modification)

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 3-9 months
  • Type of operation: Mulliken's technique

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Timing: 12-16 months
  • Type of operation: Veau–Wardill–Kilner (V-Y pushback technic), Von Langenbeck + vomer flap (sometimes)

Record collection protocol


Are records routinely collected at specific ages? Yes

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

When patient refer to orthodontic department (first visit),
preoperative lip closure,
preoperative palate closure
2nd age

Research

Want to particpate in research? yes

Participation in inter-centre studies? yes

Current Research

Participation in inter-centre studies: Yes
Details of studies: Prof. Dr. Asim Aydin gave a speech about secondary alveolar bone graft and primary alveoloplasty in cleft lip and palate patients
Published research papers: Yes
Details of publications: Surgical rehabilitation of nasoalveolar complex in patients with alveolar clefts.
Baykul T, Aydin A, Nasir S, Türkkahraman H.
J Craniofac Surg. 2010 Sep;21(5):1512-5
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




Clinical research

Clinical team members who are or would like to be involved in clinical research:
Member details: Prof. Dr. Asım Aydın Plastic - surgeon -

Prof. Dr. Timuçin Baykul Maxillo - facial surgeon -

Asisst. Prof. Dr. Elçin Esenlik - Orthodontist -

Non-clinical and laboratory research

Non-clinical and laboratory team members who are or would like to be involved in clinical research:
Member details: none


Potential laboratory based research activities

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