Abstract
A rare case of adult cleft lip and palate was reported. A 76-year-old female had bilateral cleft lip and palate, and had not been treated for complete bilateral cleft palate. She had complete cleft of her right lip, and she had an incomplete cleft with a scar on her left lip, probably caused by treatment.
Operations for cleft lip and cleft palate were performed simultaneously.
The growth of the maxilla in the cleft palate patient is controversil. In this case, the growth of the maxilla was not retarded anteroposteriorly in the cephalometric analysis.
This case was important for the argument about the growth of the maxilla.
She was the oldest patient who had undergone primary palatoplasty in Japanese literature.
