Cleft Palate Repair: Predictive Factors of Difficulty and Planned Strategies to Solve It

Conclusions: Since 2009, author has selected the alveolar extension palatoplasty with complete muscle dissection and retro positioning, plus posterior pillars elongation with a hemi-uvula rotation and reconstruction as the procedure of choice for complete primary cleft palate repair. The utilization of the pre op mentioned parameters to identify cleft palate diversity and severity seems to be useful to select the correct strategy to perform cautious surgical procedures.
Source: Journal of Craniofacial Surgery - Category: Surgery Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research