No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 70
  • Unilateral (one sided) cleft lip only: 19
  • Bilateral (Two sided) cleft lip only: 9
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 7
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 3
  • Cleft palate only: 32
  • Pierre Robin Sequence: 5
  • With anomalies present: 11

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

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

Primary surgical protocol


Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 3-6 months
  • Type of operation: Millard

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 3-6 months
  • Type of operation: Veau Duhamel

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Stages: Two stage
  • 1st Stage Timing: 6 months
  • 1st Stage Type of operation: Posterior Palatoplasty
  • 2nd Stage Timing: 18 months
  • 2nd Stage Type of operation: Anterior Palatoplasty as per Gothenburg delayed palate closure protocol. However if V shaped isolated palate - one stage repair at 6 months

Record collection protocol


Are records routinely collected at specific ages? Yes

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

Research

Want to particpate in research? yes

Participation in inter-centre studies?

Current Research

Participation in other collaborations (projects): Yes
Published research papers: Yes
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: Radu-Iulian Spataru, pediatric surgeon
Dan Gheorghe, ENT
Andrei Borangiu, ENT