Main description:

Complete Cleft Care is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the assessment and treatment of patients suffering from cleft and velopharyngeal disorders. It covers multiple treatment modalities such as unilateral and bilateral cleft lip repair, secondary speech assessment and surgery, cleft rhinoplasty, gingivoperiosteoplasty, and alveolar bone grafting. The book includes videos, available online at Thieme's Media Center, that demonstrate specific techniques used in each treatment procedure.

Key Features:

Full-color diagrams and clinical photos illustrate surgical approaches used to correct cleft deformities
Accompanying videos help readers synthesize the step-by-step procedures described in the book
Treatment algorithms to guide readers in choosing the best treatment option for each clinical problem

This book is an excellent how-to guide that otolaryngologists, facial plastic reconstructive surgeons, plastic surgeons, oral maxillofacial surgeons, and speech pathologists will read cover-to-cover and refer to whenever they need a refresher on how to tackle a particular cleft or velopharyngeal disorder.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Genetics, Prenatal Diagnosis and Counseling, and Feeding

Chapter 2: Presurgical Treatment

Chapter 3: Mandibular Distraction

Chapter 4: Cleft Lip Repair: Unilateral

Chapter 5: Cleft Lip Repair: Bilateral

Chapter 6: Primary Cleft Rhinoplasty and Gingivoperiosteoplasty

Chapter 7: Cleft Palate Repair

Chapter 8: Adjunctive Methods in Cleft Palate Repair and Complications

Chapter 9: Alveolar Bone Grafting

Chapter 10: Cleft Rhinoplasty

Chapter 11: Speech/Resonance Evaluation

Chapter 12: Pharyngeal Flap Surgery

Chapter 13: Sphincter Pharyngoplasty

Chapter 14: Complications of Velopharyngeal Insufficiency Surgery and Special Populations

Chapter 15: Humanitarian Missions