Clinical Results of Cleft Lip and/or Palate Patients in the Cleft Lip and Palate Center, Fujita Health University Hospital

Abstract

A clinico-statistical investigation was conducted with 1112 cleft lip and/or palate patients (excluded 18 cases in which data were inadequate) in the Cleft Lip and Palate Center, Fujita Health University Hospital, since its foundation in April 1992.
The results were as follows:
1) Primary cases were 1073, secondary cases were 39, and average number of patients registered per year was 75.5 from 1993 to 2006.
2) The distribution by cleft type was: 368 cases (33.1%) with unilateral CL (A) P, 279 cases (25.1%) with unilateral CL (A), 275 cases (24.7%) with CP, 157 cases (14.1%) with bilateral CL (A) P, 26 cases (2.3%) with bilateral CL (A), and 7 cases (0.6%) with others.
3) The average number of operations per year from 1993 to 2006 was as follows: chelioplasty (primary lip operation) 61.7, palatoplasty (one stage operation for CP) 13.1, palatoplasty (soft palate in two stage operation) 26.5, palatoplasty (hard palate in two stage operation) 23.4, secondary alveolar bone graft 17.8, and secondary operation for velopharyngeal incompetence 3.
4) The number of patients registered for speech evaluation and training was 741 until June 2007.