No. of Cases Seen in a Year

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

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

Primary surgical protocol


Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 6 months
  • Type of operation: Millard

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 6 months
  • Type of operation: Black

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Timing: 10 months
  • Type of operation: Wardill-Kilner

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?

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: Tanaskovic Nenad - Surgery
Maric Nina - Clinical Geneticist
Solomon Ljiljana - Pediatrition - Neonatologist

Potential laboratory based research activities

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