No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 74
  • Unilateral (one sided) cleft lip only: 5
  • Bilateral (Two sided) cleft lip only: 2
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 27
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 14
  • Cleft palate only: 17
  • Pierre Robin Sequence: 5
  • With anomalies present: 18

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

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

Comment on the service provision:

Via health insurance

Primary surgical protocol


Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 6 months
  • Type of operation: Tennison-Randall

Presurgical Orthodontics Used? Yes

  • Strapping: No
  • Orthodontic Palate: Yes

Nasal Alveolar Moulding (NAM) Used? No

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Stages: One stage
  • Timing: 12 months
  • Type of operation: Veau-Wardill-Kilner

Record collection protocol


Are records routinely collected at specific ages? Yes

Does this conform to WHO recommendations for different cleft types? Yes

Intercentre Collaboration Interested

Genetics of total and partial unilateral cleft lip and palate
Functional aesthetic results after cleft repair
Prospective study to investigate the quality of life of mothers within the first year after birth of a child with cleft lip and palate


Research

Want to particpate in research? yes

Participation in inter-centre studies? yes

Current Research

Genetics of total and partial unilateral cleft lip and palate
Functional aesthetic results after cleft repair
Prospective study to investigate the quality of life of mothers within the first year after birth of a child with cleft lip and palate


Previous Research

Genetics of total and partial unilateral cleft lip and palate
Functional aesthetic results after cleft repair
Prospective study to investigate the quality of life of mothers within the first year after birth of a child with cleft lip and palate


CLINICAL Research activities you would be happy to become involved in:

Randomised clinical trials? Yes

Inter-centre comparison of outcome? Yes

Prospective cohort studies? Yes

DNA collection? Yes

LABORATORY based research you would be happy to be involved in:

Laboratory genetics/genomics research Yes

Animal models research No

Genetics of total and partial unilateral cleft lip and palate
Functional aesthetic results after cleft repair
Prospective study to investigate the quality of life of mothers within the first year after birth of a child with cleft lip and palate


Published Papers

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The Centre for Rare Oro- and Craniofacial Malformations is a subcentre of the Centre for Rare Diseases at the University Hospital of Cologne, Germany. It treats and provides for patients with prenatally or clinically diagnosed orofacial or craniofacial malformations, including syndromal and non-syndromal dysmorphia of varying severity. One focus of the centre is the interdisciplinary treatment of patients with cleft lip and palate. Durable cooperation between the disciplines of orthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery, phoniatrics and pedaudiology, pediatrics, neurosurgery, and human genetics not only provides a comprehensive patient care but also the basis for recurrent scientific exchange.