TY - JOUR T1 - Cleft lip and palate treatment with delayed closure of the hard palate. A preliminary report. AU - Friede,H, AU - Lilja,J, AU - Johanson,B, PY - 1980/1/1/pubmed PY - 1980/1/1/medline PY - 1980/1/1/entrez SP - 49 EP - 53 JF - Scandinavian journal of plastic and reconstructive surgery JO - Scand J Plast Reconstr Surg VL - 14 IS - 1 N2 - A new routine for the surgical treatment of cleft lip and palate patients is presented. Beside the regular lip-nose surgery it includes delayed closure of the cleft in the hard palate and soft palate closure without push-back technique. The effect on early facial growth was evaluated by comparing eight of these patients, three years of age, with a matched group where the hard and soft palate was closed primarily by vomer flap and velar push-back. The new treatment method resulted in significantly less teeth in crossbite occlusion due to a wider maxillary dental arch. As yet no serious disadvantages have been recorded. SN - 0036-5556 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/7384756/Cleft_lip_and_palate_treatment_with_delayed_closure_of_the_hard_palate__A_preliminary_report_ L2 - http://www.diseaseinfosearch.org/result/1672 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -