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Surgical techniques for correction cab be found in literature. Through internet one may find technical help at many sites. One site gfmer.ch may get you started.
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Surgical repair will be performed by doctors with special knowledge of cleft lip and or palate. These specialists could be plastic surgeon of orofacial surgeons.
The von Langenbeck repair (source emedicine). Two bipedicle mucoperiosteal flaps are created by incising along the oral side of the cleft edges and along the posterior alveolar ridge from the maxillary tuberosities to the anterior level of the cleft. The flaps are then mobilized medially with preservation of the greater palatine arteries and closed in layers. The hamulus may need to be fractured to ease the closure.
Media file 5: Cleft lip nasal deformity. V-Y advancement for columellar lengthening. (source emedicine)
Dylan's First Cleft Lip Surgery 03:27 - 1 jaar geleden youtube.com Dylan's Smile is dedicated to families of a child with a facial birth defect. For more information, please visit www.dylanssmile.com. youtube.com
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