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No. of Cases Seen in a Year

• Total Referrals: 25
• Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 8
• Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 5
• Cleft palate only: 10
• Pierre Robin Sequence: 5
• With anomalies present: 2

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

• Surgery costs: Don't know
• Speech and Language Therapy costs: Don't know
• Orthodontic costs: Don't know

Primary surgical protocol

Cleft Lip Repair:

• Timing: 3 months
• Type of operation: Millard's Queiloplasty

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

• Stages: Two stage
• 1st Stage Timing: 3 months
• 1st Stage Type of operation: Lip adhesion
• 2nd Stage Timing: 4-6 months
• 2nd Stage Type of operation: Millard's Queiloplasty

Cleft Palate Repair:

• Timing: 9-12 months
• Type of operation: Von Langenbeck palatoplasty

Record collection protocol

Are records routinely collected at specific ages? Yes

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

Photographs before queiloplasty
Models and X-ray (panoramic and lateral skull radiograph) at the beginning of orthodontic protocol (6-7 years)
Intra-oral x-ray after 1 year of alveolar bone grafting
Models, photographs and Panoramic and lateral skull radiograph before and and after orthognatic surgery
Models, photographs and Panoramic and lateral skull radiograph before and after finishing treatment

Research

Want to particpate in research? yes

Participation in inter-centre studies? yes

Current Research

Clinical research activities interested in being involved in:

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

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Clinical research

Clinical team members who are or would like to be involved in clinical research:
Member details: J. López-Cedrún - CMF - Bone grafting, Orthognatic surgery

S. Herrero - Orthodontics - Growth disturbances

A. Sánchez - Orthodontics - Growth disturbances