Full Description
The aim of this book is to discuss cleft lip and palate deformities in a comprehensive way, presenting it from the basics to the most clinically and surgically relevant issues. First, the basic concepts of embryology and pathogenesis of the facial deformities will be discussed. Special attention will be paid to the genetics underlying this condition. Following that, basic principles of surgical treatment through the most recent advances in the field will be presented, along with most important evidences from the literature and the personal experience of the editors and authors.
Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment presents the state of the art and advances in the field and is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide for a broad audience. All the specialties involved in the comprehensive care of these craniofacial deformities will be presented in this book.
Contents
Introduction.- Promoting Comprehensive Cleft Care into a Unified Heath System in Brazil: Challenges and Achievements.- Global Cleft Lip And Palate Care: A Brief Review.- Genetics of Cleft Lip and Palate: Perspectives in Surgery Management and Outcome.- Classification of Cleft Phenotypes.- An overview of Protocols and Outcomes in Cleft Care.- Unilateral Cleft Repair.- Treatment of Bilateral Cleft Lip and Palate: Protocol for Surgical Treatment.- Current Management of Bilateral Cleft Lip.- Cleft Palate: Anatomy and Surgery.- Buccinator Myomucosal Flap in Cleft Repair: The SOBRAPAR Hospital Experience.- Velopharyngeal Insufficiency: Etiopathology and Treatment.- Surgical Management of Velopharyngeal Insufficiency: The Sobrapar Hospital Algorithm.- Speech Therapie in Cleft Patients.- Robin Sequence.- Bone Graft in Alveolar Cleft Lip and Palate.- Bone Substitute Alveolar Bone Grafting with Rhbmp-2.- Orthodontic Treatment of Patients with Orofacial Cleft.- Orthognatic Surgery in Cleft Patients.- Secondary Unilateral Cleft Rhinoplasty.- The Rare Facial Cleft.- Three Dimensional Digital Stereophotogrammetry in Cleft Care.- Standardized Two Dimensional Photographic Documentation of Cleft Patients.
