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Title: Nasoalveolar molding of bilateral cleft of the lip and palate infants with orthopaedic ring plate
Authors: Abida Ijaz , Arsalah Raffat , Junaid Israr
Journal: Journal of Pakistan Medical Association
Publisher: Pakistan Medical Association.
Country: Pakistan
Year: 2010
Volume: 60
Issue: 7
Language: English
Abstract
Objective: To introduce a simple, self-retentive and cost effective presurgical infant orthopaedic plate with anterior ring to retract and align the grossly protruded and deviated pre-maxilla and to perform the nasoalveolar moulding in order to facilitate initial lip repair.
Method: The study was conducted in the orthodontic department of dental section of CH & ICH Lahore. The nonprobable purposive sample consisted of 35 subjects (27 males, 8 females) with a median age of 7 days (1-13 days). Nonsyndromic patients with bilateral complete cleft lip and palate were included in the study, patients were treated with custom made orthopaedic plate with an acrylic ring around the protruded premaxilla for around 3 months. Anthropometric readings and cast impressions were used to calculate the pre and post treatment differences, the data was tabulated and analysed using SPSS v 12.
Results: The results showed highly significant (
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