Presurgical nasoalveolar molding orthopedic treatment improves the outcome of primary cheiloplasty of unilateral complete cleft lip and palate, as assessed by naris morphology and cleft gap

• Published in: The Journal of craniofacial surgery Vol. 23; no. 6; p. 1596
• Main Authors: Sasaki, Hiroyoshi, Togashi, Shinji, Karube, Rei, Yanagawa, Toru, Nakane, Shizuo, Tabuchi, Katsuhiko, Ishibashi, Naomi, Shinya, Yoshiko, Ito, Hiroyuki, Yamagata, Kenji, Onizawa, Kojiro, Adachi, Koji, Sekido, Mitsuru, Bukawa, Hiroki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.2012
• Subjects: Alveolar Process - abnormalities; Alveolar Process - surgery; Case-Control Studies; Cleft Lip - surgery; Cleft Lip - therapy; Cleft Palate - surgery; Cleft Palate - therapy; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Nose - abnormalities; Nose - surgery; Orthopedic Procedures - instrumentation; Preoperative Care; Treatment Outcome

We evaluated the effects of presurgical nasoalveolar molding (NAM) with an orthopedic appliance and compared them with a passive orthopedic method (Hotz plate, HP), focusing on the naris morphology and width of the alveolar and palate cleft gap. The subjects were 28 unilateral complete cleft lip and...