No. of Cases Seen in a Year

  • Total Referrals: 31
  • Unilateral cleft lip and palate: 8
  • Bilateral cleft lip and palate: 3
  • Cleft palate only: 12
  • With anomalies present: 0.6

Treatment Funded by State for National Residents

  • Surgery costs: Don't know
  • Speech and Language Therapy costs: Don't know
  • Orthodontic costs: Don't know

Primary surgical protocol


Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 3 months

Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair:

  • Timing: 3 months

Cleft Palate Repair:

  • Timing: 9 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?

Current Research

Type(s) of software used: Excel, Word, Powerpoint
Participation in inter-centre studies: Yes
Details of studies: Eurocleft, Eurocran
Published research papers: Yes
Details of publications: Fedeles J Jr, Ziak P, Fedeles J.: Nasoalveolar molding in complete cleft lip nasal deformity patients., Bratisl Lek Listy. 2012;113(5):293-7.
Fedeles J Jr, Ziak P, Krizko M, Payer J Jr, Bohac M, Palencar D, Hulin I Jr, Fedeles J.:Prevalence of cleft lip and palate in western Slovakia in the years 2001-2007., Bratisl Lek Listy. 2012;113(2):117-9.
Ziak P, Fedeles J Jr, Fekiacova D, Hulin I Jr, Fedeles J.:Timing of primary lip repair in cleft patients according to surgical treatment protocol., Bratisl Lek Listy. 2010;111(3):160-2.
Molnarova A, Petrovicova A, Fedeles J, Bopegamage S, Horakova E.:Coxsackie viral infection and orofacial cleft. Bratisl Lek Listy. 2002;103(10):365-7.
Cvicelova M, Karabova P, Fedeles J, Molnarova A.:Orofacial clefts and their influence on chosen anthropometric parameters of craniofacial part children at the age of eight.Bratisl Lek Listy. 2002;103(4-5):152-8.
Fedeles J, Janovic J, Oravkinová Z, Klímová I, Fekiacová D.:Fifty years of the Cleft Centre in Bratislava.,Acta Chir Plast. 2004;46(1):23-7.
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




Clinical research

Clinical team members who are or would like to be involved in clinical research:
Member details: all cleft centre members

Potential laboratory based research activities

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