The presurgical period, initial surgery, and speech, surgery, and growth

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Cleft lip and palate are common and distressing human birth defects but much still needs to be learnt about the care and management of the conditions and the long-term consequences of the treatment. This work provides a forum for the development of better understanding of the problems involved and for better new ideas to be developed to significantly improve the treatment of this condition.
 

Contents

Longitudinal growth studies of craniofacial anomalies
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A national cleft palate team longterm experiences from
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Social attitudes to facial clefting abstract
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Individual assessment during presurgical jaw orthopaedics
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Dental arch relationships in two groups of complete
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Discussion
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The adverse effects of periosteoplasty abstract
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Discussion
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Primary bone grafting a longterm assessment
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an introduction
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Intrauterine interception and correction of craniofacial
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A retrospective study of adult cleft treated by the Le Fort II
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Changes in speech following maxillary osteotomy
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Early or late surgery of the hard palate? A preliminary
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Surgery speech and growth H L Morris
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Discussion
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Surgery of cleft lip in the neonatal period
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Discussion
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The surgical technique of early radical repair of cleft lip and
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Techniques of assessment for surgery of the velopharyngeal
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Discussion
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The development of maxillary deformity I F K Muir
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Index
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