No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 15
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 7
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 1
  • Cleft palate only: 7
  • Pierre Robin Sequence: 1
  • With anomalies present: 1

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

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

Primary surgical protocol


Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: Neonatal
  • Type of operation: Millard

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: Neonatal
  • Type of operation: Millard

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Timing: 3-6 months
  • Type of operation: Veau-Wardill-Kilner

Record collection protocol


Are records routinely collected at specific ages? No

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

Type(s) of software used: Excel
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: De Berail - Surgery -

Galinier - Surgery -

Lauwers - Surgery -

Noirrit - Dentist -

Woisard - Speech therapy -