Abstract
A statistical analysis was made to the Patients of cleft lip over the age of five years who received secondary corrective operations at the Clinic of Oral Surgery, Kyushu University Hospital from January, 1979 to December, 1983.In these five years, secondary corrective operations were performed to 217 patients (241 cases), 51% of which were male patients and 49% were females. There were 100 patients (46%) who had received primary operations elsewhere.Most patients (94%) were between the ages of 5 and 29 years and the patients over 30 were few.Removal of the hypertrophic scar of the white lip was performed to 83% of the patients and 64% received the revision of nasal deformity.Operations were performed under local anesthesia in 29% and 71% of the patients were operated on under general anesthesia. When the operation was accompanied by the revision of nasal deformity, general anesthesia was used more often (81%), comparing with the opertion only on the white lip (40%).Twenty four percent of the patients were of bilateral cleft lip and 51% of which received corrective operations more than twice.
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