No. of Cases Seen in a Year
- Total Referrals: 25
- Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 8
- Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 5
- Cleft palate only: 10
- Pierre Robin Sequence: 5
- With anomalies present: 2
Treatment Funded by State for National Residents
- Surgery costs: Don't know
- Speech and Language Therapy costs: Don't know
- Orthodontic costs: Don't know
Primary surgical protocol
Cleft Lip Repair:
- Timing: 3 months
- Type of operation: Millard's Queiloplasty
Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:
- Stages: Two stage
- 1st Stage Timing: 3 months
- 1st Stage Type of operation: Lip adhesion
- 2nd Stage Timing: 4-6 months
- 2nd Stage Type of operation: Millard's Queiloplasty
Cleft Palate Repair:
- Timing: 9-12 months
- Type of operation: Von Langenbeck palatoplasty
Record collection protocol
Are records routinely collected at specific ages? Yes
Does this conform to WHO recommendations for different cleft types? No
Photographs before queiloplasty
Models and X-ray (panoramic and lateral skull radiograph) at the beginning of orthodontic protocol (6-7 years)
Intra-oral x-ray after 1 year of alveolar bone grafting
Models, photographs and Panoramic and lateral skull radiograph before and and after orthognatic surgery
Models, photographs and Panoramic and lateral skull radiograph before and after finishing treatment
Research
Want to particpate in research? yes
Participation in inter-centre studies? yes
Current Research
Published research papers: | Yes |
Details of publications: | Méndez R, López-Cedrún JL, Patiño B, Vázquez I, Martín Sastre R, Tellado MG, Vela D. Plasma enriquecido en plaquetas en la alveoloplastia de pacientes fisurados. Cir Pediatr 2006; 19:23-26 |
Research grant funding received: | Yes |
Details of funding: | Utilización de plasma rico en plaquetas en la reconstrucción ósea del fisurado labiopalatino. Conselleria de Sanidade. Xunta de Galicia. Código: PR 425R. 2002-2003 |
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: J. López-Cedrún - CMF - Bone grafting, Orthognatic surgery
S. Herrero - Orthodontics - Growth disturbances
A. Sánchez - Orthodontics - Growth disturbances