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Cleft lip and palate is a common condition affecting thousands of children in India and overseas. With an incidence of 1 in 800 live births, these cleft lip and cleft palate patients face numerous aesthetic as well as functional challenges. The condition goes untreated in many scenarios, or patients do not receive adequate treatment due to various reasons like lack of awareness, lack of specialist dentists etc. leading to permanent facial deformity with significant deterioration of quality of life. There have been many changes in the management of alveolar cleft in the past 100 years. Documentation of the first cleft lip repairs dates back to 400 BC, and was performed by Hippocrates, while the first cleft velum repair was done for the first time by a French dentist, Monnier, in 1764. The treatment protocol for the same has been upgraded with time, with better understanding of the anatomy and pathophysiology of the condition, and for better results to the patients. Alveolar bone grafting (ABG) is now becoming an integral part of managing cleft patients. There still isn’t a fixed and widely accepted protocol for ABG in the management of cleft patients, but there are various opinions of researchers around the world regarding the indications of bone grafting, the type of grafting (primary or secondary) to be employed, timing of grafting, the source of bone graft and use of various bone graft substitutes in the procedure. An increasing value of multidisciplinary approach, including maxillofacial surgeons and orthodontists, towards managing such patients, is helping improve the outcome of such patients, and hence easing the overall treatment duration for the patient and relatives. Hence, through this article, we aim to shed some light over the evolvement and current place of alveolar bone grafting in treating cleft lip and palate patients. The anatomy of involved parts, types and indications of ABG, clinical evidences on the timing of the surgery, future evaluation, results and complications, and orthodontic treatment have been mentioned in this article.
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Cleft lip and palate (CLCP) is one of the most common birth defects. The birth of a child with a facial cleft is a tragic incident for the family that the child is born in. Not only is the family devastated by the apparent facial deformity, but also worried about several other issues such as care of the child, the treatment options, and the social impact that the cleft will have for the child and for the family. The purpose of the study was to assess the sense of coherence in parents participating in the treatment of their children with CLCP. Methods50 parents of children with CLCP were evaluated and a questionnaire study was carried out at time intervals of T0, T1 and T2. ResultsMost of the parameters were found to be statistically significant (P<0.05). Overall subjective results were found to be non-significant from T0 - T1. In our study, we found that undergoing orthodontic treatment had positive effects on the parents of patients with CLCP. It was observed that it altered the psychological, financial, emotional and social wellbeing of the parents. ConclusionsIt was concluded that orthodontic treatment should be aimed at both physical and psychological rehabilitation of cleft patients.
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INTRODUCTION: Achieving functional efficiency, structural balance, and aestheticshasalways been a threefold objective of the correction of dentoskeletal malocclusions. Ortho surgical correction and dentofacial abnormalities has always aimed for facial proportions which are more pleasant and aesthetic alongside normal functional occlusion. One big cosmetic concern for patients and dentists is the Gummy smile, which is the excessive display of gingiva on a full smile.