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No. of Cases Seen in a Year

• Total Referrals: 45
• Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 15
• Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 15
• Cleft palate only: 15

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

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

Primary surgical protocol

Cleft Lip Repair:

• Timing: 4-5 months
• Type of operation: Mulliken, Delaire

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

• Timing: 5-6 mon ths
• Type of operation: Mulliken, Millard

Cleft Palate Repair:

• Stages: Two stage
• 1st Stage Timing: 8 months
• 1st Stage Type of operation: Soft Palate
• 2nd Stage Timing: 12-18 months
• 2nd Stage Type of operation: Hard Palate

Record collection protocol

Are records routinely collected at specific ages? No

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

Cast and photographs at birth and during pre-primary surgery orthodontics, routine orthodontic records before maxillary advancement therapy by face-mask (at age 7-8), computerized tomography before secondary bone grafting, routine ortho. records before Le Fort 1 surgery if needed.

Research

Want to particpate in research? yes

Participation in inter-centre studies? no

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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