Open AccessCurrent surgical approach in cleft palate treatment
Author(s) -
Sorin Tală,
Teleorman Spitalul Judeţean de Urgenţă Alexandria,
Dan Mircea Enescu,
Mircea Andriescu,
Bucureşti Spitalul de Urgenţă pentru Copii „Grigore Alexandrescu“,
Bucureşti Spitalul de Pediatrie MedLife
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
romanian journal of medical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-6108
pISSN - 1842-8258
DOI - 10.37897/rjmp.2015.3.3
Subject(s) - medicine , retrospective cohort study , hard palate , protocol (science) , prospective cohort study , medical treatment , dentistry , pediatrics , surgery , intensive care medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Objective. To evaluate the present state of cleft palate surgical treatment based on clinical studies after an extensive research of medical literature. Methods. The research was made in PubMed database between 2007-2014 taking in consideration surgical treatment of cleft palate and eliminating case reports, case series and reviews. Results. There was 1,677 articles with relevance for cleft palate surgical treatment and after applying exclusion criteria were retained 43 – 29 retrospective studies and 14 prospective. Conclusion. There isn’t a protocol treatment recognized by all the cleft palate centers, existing a variety of ways to manage this malformation. There are few studies that adress treatment of cleft palate and in particular the surgical treatment of this disease and of these many are retrospective studies. This review reinforces the importance of performing prospective studies with long-term outcomes to elucidate the effect of each protocol for obtaining optimal results.