Meeting abstract
Oral Rehabilitation of Neglected Cleft Palate: A Clinical Report
V Bubalo
Ivo Baučić
Abstract
Cleft lip with or without cleft palate is one of the most common physical abnormalities present at birth. The causes of cleft lip and palate remain unclear. Some evidence indicates genetic factors may be involved. Cleft lip and cleft palate usually occur together, and affect about one in 700 cases. Cleft lip occurs on its own in about one in 1000 cases, and cleft palate occurs on its own in about one in 2000 cases. Also, these abnormalities are more common in the children of older couples. Surgical treatment of cleft palate is performed at six to eighteen months of age. Adults with clefts often have poorly shaped or missing teeth.
Missing teeth can be restored or replaced with dental bridges or dental implants. Greater loss of teeth requires a solution such as partial metal alloy dentures.
Neglected cleft palate in babies is very rare because of the level of health care, but non-treated or mistreated adults can be found. Success of the therapy in new born babies is the result of close cooperation between the maxillofacial surgeon, paediatric dentist and orthodontist.
In adults treatment often requires prosthodontics and/or an orthodontist.
This group of patients have difficulty with chewing and speech as well as esthetic.
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3130
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Publication date:
15.9.2003.
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