No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 100
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 35
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 15
  • Cleft palate only: 20

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

  • Surgery costs: All
  • Speech and Language Therapy costs: None
  • Orthodontic costs: Part

Comment on the service provision:

We generaly make cleft palate surgery and bilateral cleft lip surgery.
The patients with unilateral cleft lip are generally treated in state hospitals (not university hospital) in our city.

Record collection protocol


Are records routinely collected at specific ages? Yes

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

Cleft Lip and Palate or Cleft Palate only
Photographs in every Year (if avaliable)
Tympanometry and Audiometry - 3rd year (if the Pateint has Cleft palate)
Sitatic nasopharyngeal MR - Before surgery and at the 6th, 12nd and 24th months after the surgery (if patient has cleft palate is younger than 4 years old)
Dynamic nasopharyngeal MR - Before surgery and at the 6th, 12nd and 24th months after the surgery (if patient has cleft palate and is older than 4 years old)

Research

Want to particpate in research? yes

Participation in inter-centre studies? no

Current Research

Type(s) of software used: Word, Excel
Published research papers: Yes
Details of publications: Original Articles—-

Isik D, Durucu C, Isik Y, Atik B, Kocak OF, Karatas E, Bekerecioglu M.
Use of rotation flap in repair of cleft palate and velopharyngeal insufficiency.J Craniofac Surg. 2011 Jul;22(4):1203-9.

Isik D, Atik B, Tan O, Aktar S, Dogan M, Goktas U.Primary repair of the alveolar cleft. J Craniofac Surg. 2011 Nov;22(6):2224-6.

Case Reports—–

Isik D, Guner S, Avcu S, Goktas U, Atik B. A case report of a patient with cleft palate carrying the risk of tetraplegia. Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2011 Nov;48(6):773-5.

Isik D, Bulut O, Bekerecioglu M. Congenital lateral cleft palate and lateral palatal synechiae. Scand J Plast Reconstr Surg Hand Surg. 2008;42(6):325-7.

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: Daghan Isik, MD.