Interventional calendar and protocol for cleft lift and palate repair at the maxillofacial and plastic surgery department of the Armand Trousseau Children’s Hospital (AP-HP, Paris)

Abstract

Parents want their children’s’ faces, the most visible part of their bodies, one that marks their identity throughout life, to be perfect. To satisfy this understandably urgent desire, a high quality of primary treatment for cleft lip and palate is essential and must satisfy a double objective: restore normal morphology and normal function. The functional, morphological, and esthetic prognoses depend on the character of the defect, whether it stands alone or is associated in a syndrome with other malformations. Important sequellae flow from the quality of the initial repair, as a consequence of the surgery and other therapies as well as from the deformity itself.