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Children who are getting bone grafts during their cleft care often need extractions prior to bone graft. This is the recommended number of weeks prior to bone graft the extractions should be done.
What is 6-8 weeks?
This is the classification system for palatal clefts.
What is Veau?
This is what NAM stands for.
What is nasoalveolar molding?
Primary bone grafting occurs at this age.
What is prior to age 2?
This is the surgical procedure to close the palate.
What is palatoplasty?
Children with cleft lip and palate typically have this AP malocclusion.
What is anterior crossbite or Class III?
You would expect a free and mobile premaxilla in this classification of cleft.
What is a Veau Type IV or bilateral maxillary cleft palate of the hard palate?
The main purpose of an obturator in a newborn with cleft palate is this.
What is ability to obtain nourishment?
This is used to prevent maxillary collapse after lip repair in a child with cleft palate.
What is an obturator?
This presurgical appliance helps to reduce the severity of the cleft deformity, approximate the alveolar and lip segments, decrease the nasal base width and attempts to achieve symmetry of the nasal cartilage.
What is NAM?
This is the most commonly missing tooth in a child with cleft palate.
What is maxillary lateral incisor?
This is what a tooth that erupts within the first thirty days of life is called.
What is a neonatal tooth?
This is the term for lip closure of a child with a cleft lip.
What is cheiloplasty?
Secondary alveolar bone grafting should occur when the canine root is at this development.
What is 1/4 to 1/2 root formation?
This is the primary reason to complete palate closure before age 2.
What is for acquisition of normal speech?
Canines adjacent to the cleft site tend to ectopically erupt in this position.
What is palatal?
In a child with complete unilateral or bilateral cleft o the palate, this is how you would expect the lateral facial profile to appear.
What is concave?
This is the age for a lip closure in an infant.
What is 10 weeks?
This is the rule of 10 when planning cleft surgery.
What is child should be 10 weeks old, 10 lbs and at least 10 g hemoglobin per deciliter of blood?
This percentage of children have veloppharyngeal insufficiency after primary closure of the cleft palate.
What is 25%?
This is the reason permanent teeth that erupt adjacent to the cleft of the alveolar ridge are prematurely lost.
What is deficiency of supporting alveolar bone around root surface?
This is the type of impression taken while making an intramural maxillary obturator in a newborn.
What is alginate?
This is a common outcome that occurs to the clefted maxilla after definitive lip closure at about 3 months of age.
What is maxillary arch collapse?
This is the reason for maxillary collapse after lip repair in a child with cleft palate.
What is increased tension on the palatal segments?
This is the amount of healing time after secondary alveolar bone grafting before orthodontic movements should occur.
What is 2 months?