Cleft lip and PalateSection 1Team approach and surgical management

Section 2Surgical partnership.Cleft care in Low and Middle Income Countries

Editor in Chief

Andrea Franchella

Associated Editors

Alessandra CazzuffiSebastiano Franchella

Contents

Section 1Team approach and surgical management

1. The basics of cleft lip and palate ......................................................... 13

2. Multidisciplinary management of children with cleft lip and palate ........................................................................................... 28

3. Primary surgical treatment ................................................................. 35

4. The orthodontic treatment and maxillary surgery ............................... 71

5. Secondary surgical treatment ............................................................. 76

6. Pierre Robin Sequence ....................................................................... 94

7. Syndromic cleft lip and palate ............................................................. 99

8. Otologic disease in cleft palate patient ............................................. 103

9. Secondary repair of cleft lip nasal deformity .....................................110

10. Retrospective Analysis of cases treated by the Pediatric Surgery Department, Saint Anna Hospital, Ferrara ...............................................117

Section 2Surgical partnership. Cleft care in Low and Middle Income Countries

1. General considerations ..................................................................... 129

2. Surgery and Anaesthesia .................................................................. 132

3. The treatment of cleft lip and palate in Low and Middle Income Countries: 20 years of experience through humanitarian missions ................................................................................................. 143

Concluding remarks .................................................................... 152

References ........................................................................................... 156

Glossary ........................................................................................ 160