Full Description
Complete Cleft Care is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the assessment and treatment of patients suffering from cleft and velopharyngeal disorders. It covers multiple treatment modalities such as unilateral and bilateral cleft lip repair, secondary speech assessment and surgery, cleft rhinoplasty, gingivoperiosteoplasty, and alveolar bone grafting. The book includes videos, available online at Thieme's Media Center, that demonstrate specific techniques used in each treatment procedure.
Key Features:
Full-color diagrams and clinical photos illustrate surgical approaches used to correct cleft deformities
Accompanying videos help readers synthesize the step-by-step procedures described in the book
Treatment algorithms to guide readers in choosing the best treatment option for each clinical problem
This book is an excellent how-to guide that otolaryngologists, facial plastic reconstructive surgeons, plastic surgeons, oral maxillofacial surgeons, and speech pathologists will read cover-to-cover and refer to whenever they need a refresher on how to tackle a particular cleft or velopharyngeal disorder.
Contents
Chapter 1: Genetics, Prenatal Diagnosis and Counseling, and Feeding
Chapter 2: Presurgical Treatment
Chapter 3: Mandibular Distraction
Chapter 4: Cleft Lip Repair: Unilateral
Chapter 5: Cleft Lip Repair: Bilateral
Chapter 6: Primary Cleft Rhinoplasty and Gingivoperiosteoplasty
Chapter 7: Cleft Palate Repair
Chapter 8: Adjunctive Methods in Cleft Palate Repair and Complications
Chapter 9: Alveolar Bone Grafting
Chapter 10: Cleft Rhinoplasty
Chapter 11: Speech/Resonance Evaluation
Chapter 12: Pharyngeal Flap Surgery
Chapter 13: Sphincter Pharyngoplasty
Chapter 14: Complications of Velopharyngeal Insufficiency Surgery and Special Populations
Chapter 15: Humanitarian Missions
