No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 28
  • Unilateral (one sided) cleft lip only: 14
  • Bilateral (Two sided) cleft lip only: 3
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 4
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 1
  • Cleft palate only: 6

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: 2 months
  • Type of operation: Tennison

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 2 - 3 months

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Timing: 10 - 12 months
  • Type of operation: Veau

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

Type(s) of software used: Excel; Word
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





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