Active clinical trials for "Cleft Lip"

During primary cleft lip repair in patients who were born with cleft lip and palate, usage of cleft margin flap with anterior palatal closure will be done in an attempt to close the Naso-alveolar fistula (defect) that usually occur and remain in those patients post-operatively.

OBJECTIVE: To compare otologic and rhinologic outcomes in patients with cleft palate according to surgical protocols and type of cleft. DESIGN: Monocentric retrospective and prospective analysis of medical reports. PATIENTS, PARTICIPANTS: All consecutively treated patients affected by a cleft palate, born between December 2006 and December 2009 and followed in the Montpellier University Hospital, at the age of 10 years. INTERVENTIONS: Results of audiometry, tympanometry, otoscopy, tubomanometry and rhinomanometry and orofacial tomodensitometry done at the age of 10 were evaluated. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): The history of ventilation tubes inserted, and the results at the EDTQ test were analyzed.

Cleft lips and palate are one of the most frequent congenital malformation. From 2005 to 2009, a French study, conducted by Dr Bäumler et al. evaluated the accuracy of prenatal ultrasound in the diagnosis of cleft palate when cleft lip is present. The aim of this study is to continue this study from 2009 till 2016. The hypothesis is that the diagnosis rate is constant since 2005.

The purpose of the study is to assess if there are any differences in the articulatory and phonological competence in pre-school children with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) who are treated with different surgical methods of palatal repair.

The purpose of this study is to find out if there are any genetic differences between people with and without disorders of the head, face, and eye. We will create a biorepository of samples from people with and without these types of birth defects. A biorepository is a collection or "bank" of human tissue materials (such as blood or saliva) for research purposes. These samples will then be available to investigators studying these disorders.

This proposal describes a population-based case-control study of all Norwegian infants born with cleft lip or palate over a five-year period. The study will be jointly supported by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the Norwegian National Institute of Public Health (SIFF) and Medical Birth Registry of Norway (MBR). Cases will be identified through the two surgery clinics that treat all clefts in Norway. Controls will be randomly selected from all live births through the MBR. Mothers will complete two selfadministered questionnaires; one regarding exposures before and during pregnancy, the other their diet during their early months of pregnancy. Biological specimens for DNA testing (blood samples, buccal swabs) will be collected from cases, controls and mothers in order to describe possible gene-environment interactions. With 750 cases and 1100 controls, this will be one of the largest and most complete field studies of facial clefting yet conducted.

Single blind prospective randomized comparative study. 76 children between 6 months and 3 years with cleft lip will be divided in two groups. 38 children group C conventional group and 38 children group S infraorbital nerve block group.

Congenital cleft lip with or without cleft palate is one of the most common congenital malformations with an estimated incidence of about 1 every 500 to 700 live births. Cleft lip and palate are caused by a complex combination of many environmental and genetic factors sharing into the etiology. Patients with cleft lip and palate undergo multiple surgeries to reconstruct the anatomy and function to achieve symmetric, aesthetic, and functional nasolabial region. The most important goals of correction of the cleft are to achieve an acceptable facial appearance and psychological and social well-being for the patient and his or her family. Therefore, assessment of nasolabial appearance following cleft surgery remains an important parameter for evaluating the outcome of the procedure. Unfortunately, some residual deformities in the nasolabial region such as the abnormal shape of the nose, scar of the upper lip, uneven white roll, notched or excess vermilion border will remain noticeable. So, the assessment of secondary cleft nasolabial deformities needs a reliable rating scale. Although many scoring systems have been described in the literature, there is no globally accepted reliable one. A frequently used scoring system is the one proposed by Asher-McDade that uses frontal and lateral view masked prints of the nasolabial area. The use of three-dimensional (3D) imaging seems to be the most reliable in assessing cleft-related facial deformities. However, scoring based on two-dimensional (2D) photographs is easier to perform and more applicable in daily practice because all cleft patients are photographed during their treatment journey at predetermined intervals. Assessment of secondary nasolabial deformities in cleft patients in large numbers of patients helps compare the aesthetic results of the different treatment protocols and techniques.

The patients with unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and palate received alveolar bone graft surgery. Two time points of cone beam CT were taken for all the patients: post-operative 6 months, and post-operative 2 years. All the CT images were reviewed for the analysis of grafted bone density.

The aim of this study was to assess the electrical activity of the temporal and masseter muscles in cleft lip and palate (CLP) children with pain-related temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and in CLP individuals with no TMD by means of surface electromyography (sEMG). Another objective was to determine the diagnostic value of electromyography in identifying CLP patients with temporomandibular disorders. The sample comprised 87 children with CLP and mixed dentition. The children were assessed for the presence of TMD using of the Research Diagnostic Criteria for TMD (RDC/TMD) by a single examiner. A DAB-Bluetooth Instrument (Zebris Medical GmbH, Germany) was used to take electromyographical (EMG) recordings of the temporal and masseter muscles both in the mandibular rest position and during maximum voluntary contraction (MVC).