Pre: Surgical orthopedic pre-maxillary alignment in bilateral cleft lip and palate patient

Abstract

Pre-surgical orthopedic appliances are mainly used to retract and align the protruded and deviated pre-maxilla and to facilitate initial lip repair. This article presents a case report of a five year old male child patient with bilateral cleft lip and palate in whom a special custom made pre-surgical orthopedic appliance was delivered. Use of a special custom made presurgical orthopedic appliance for repositioning pre-maxilla in bilateral cleft lip and palate patient is discussed in this article.

Keywords

• Bilateral cleft lip and palate
• pre-maxilla
• pre-surgical orthopedics