No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 30
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 12
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 10
  • Cleft palate only: 5
  • Pierre Robin Sequence: 6
  • With anomalies present: 14

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

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

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

Type(s) of software used: word, acces
Participation in inter-centre studies: Yes
Details of studies: rotterdamgroningen use of Foliaticaccid
NijmegenFriesland outcomstudies
Published research papers: Yes
Details of publications: Facial reconstruction on the abnormal skull model of a living patient.
KGH van der Wal, RAH Neave, JJ van der Biezen and B van der Kuijl.
Cleft Palate Craniof J 2001; 38: 317-322.Does the interaction between maternal folate intake and the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphisms affect cleft with or without cleft palate risk.
Rooij van IALM, Vermeij-Keers C, Kluijtmans LAJ, Ocke MC, Zielhuis GA, Goorhuis-Brouwer SM, Biezen vanderJJ, Kuipers-Jagtman AM, Steegres Theunissen RPM.
Am J of Epidermiology 2003;157:583-591
ICBD Award: Top of the week paper on birth defects etc
The use of buccal fatpads in palatal
reconstruction.
Yu Lan khouw, KGH van der Wal and JJ van der Biezen
J Oral Maxfacialsurg 2004; 62: 749-51.
Inferior-based pharyngeal flap for correction of stress velopharygeal incompetence in musicians: case reports and revieuw of the literature.
Visser A, van der Biezen JJ.
J of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (2012),
65, 960-962.
doi:10.1016j.bjps.2011.11.49

Clinical research activities interested in being involved in:

Randomised clinical trials: Yes
Inter-centre comparison of outcome: Yes
Prospective study: Yes




Potential laboratory based research activities

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