Early surgical management of unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and palate - standards of care

Zofia Dudkiewicz, Maria Hortis-Dzierzbicka

Summary
This paper presents standards for early surgical treatment of unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and palate as well as isolated cleft palate, developed and in use at the Centre for Craniofacial Disorders National Research Institute for the Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland. The authors discuss the arguments for such an approach, in the light of modern views on factors influencing maxilla growth and speech development in patients with orofacial clefts.

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