Application of team approach and key techniques of cleft lip and palate.
- VernacularTitle:唇腭裂序列治疗与关键技术的应用
- Author:
Bing SHI
1
;
Yuchuan FU
2
;
Ningbei YIN
3
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: cleft lip and palate; expert consensus; team approach
- MeSH: Alveolar Bone Grafting; Cleft Lip; Humans; Velopharyngeal Insufficiency
- From: West China Journal of Stomatology 2017;35(1):8-17
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: The development of an expert consensus based on specific domestic situations will provide practical guidance to the efforts aiming at improving cleft care in China. The team approach of twenty-one cleft centers were pooled together, covering pre-surgical orthopedics, primary surgical repair, orthodontic treatment, alveolar bone graft, secondary deformity correction, palatal fistulae repair, the diagnosis and treatment of velopharyngeal incompetence, speech therapy, otitis media management, and skeletal deformity correction. Agreement was achieved among the authors concerning the application of critical surgical and non-surgical techniques. The ambition of this consensus is to introduce more clinicians to the revolution of sequential treatment of clefts, and form the basis for a more comprehensive cleft care manual in the future.
