No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 97
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 25
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 5
  • Cleft palate only: 45
  • Pierre Robin Sequence: 8

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

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

Primary surgical protocol


Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 4-6 months
  • Type of operation: Millard, Delaire, Tennison, own technique

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 4-6 months
  • Type of operation: Millard, Delaire, Tennison, own technique

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Stages: Two stage
  • 1st Stage Timing: 9-12 months
  • 1st Stage Type of operation: Soft palate - intravelar veloplasty, Bardach-Salyer technique, own technique
  • 2nd Stage Timing: 5-6 years
  • 2nd Stage Type of operation: Hard palate closure. Isolated cleft palate - one stage at 9-12 months

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? yes

Current Research

Type(s) of software used: MS 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





Clinical research

Clinical team members who are or would like to be involved in clinical research:
Member details: L.Kharkov, L.Yakovenko, I.Chekhova, G.Korotchenko, V.Yefimenko, N.Kiselyova, A.Suprun, V.Sokolovsky, P.Levchenko, R.Yegorov, Y.Kalinichenko, D.Reznichenko