No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 70
  • Unilateral (one sided) cleft lip only: 30
  • Bilateral (Two sided) cleft lip only: 5
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 5
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 1
  • Cleft palate only: 30
  • Pierre Robin Sequence: 5

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

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

Primary surgical protocol


Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 1-2 months
  • Type of operation: Tennison

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 2-3 month
  • Type of operation: Bialteral Millard

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Timing: 10-12 months
  • Type of operation: Veau- Killner-Wardill. If isolated cleft palate then Furlow

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

Participation in inter-centre studies: Yes
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: Branislav Trifunovi? (surgeon, all types of research)
Ivan Raki? (surgeon, all types of research)
Marko Majstorovi? (surgeon, all types of research)
Dragan Zamaklar (surgeon, all types of research)

Non-clinical and laboratory research

Non-clinical and laboratory team members who are or would like to be involved in clinical research:
Member details: Goran ?ubrilo ( Geneticist, all types of research)
Vukašin ?obelji? (Psychologist, all types of research)

Potential laboratory based research activities

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