Special field

Cleft lip & palate

We treat patients in cooperation with the dentists.

Treatment

0~3 months old

In alveolar / palatal cleft patients, we sometimes use palatal plate to guide alveolus and nose in good position before surgery.

3~6 months old

In cleft lip patients, cheiloplasty is done to reconstruct orbicularis oris muscle and make natural shape and function.

Around 1 year 6 months old

In cleft palate patients, a palatoplasty (the push-back method or the Furlow method) is performed.

2~4 years old

Orthodontic treatment and language treatment is going on.

4~6 years old

If necessary, revisional cheiloplasty, or nasal plasty is applied.

6~10 years old

If you have alveolar cleft, secondary bone graft is done. It makes easy to fix teeth alignment. Orthodontic treatment is provided later last time.

After 16 years old

When maxillary growth is poor, even if orthodontic treatment is provided, the mandibular osteotomy or two jaw surgery may be applied.
When the transformation of the nose is left, we perform last revise technique.

Publications

  • 秦 維郎、梅田 整. 二次的顎裂部骨移植とその術式. 形成外科 2001; 44: 309-317
  • Umeda T,Iida H,Ohara H. Supemumerary nostrils associated with cleft lip palate. British Journal of Plastic Sutgery : 49:499-500
  • 秦 維郎, 田野口二三子, 酒井俊一. Furlow法による口蓋裂術後成績ー手技と獲得言語の成績についてー. 形成外科38: 707-714, 1995
  • Hata Y. Vestibular Fold in Cleft Lip Nose. British Journal of Plastic Surgery 46: 345, 1993
  • 秦 維郎. 自家骨膜遊離移植による骨の誘導新生に関する実験病理学的研究. 形成外科 22: 93-105, 1979
  • Hata Y, Ohmori S. On the Experiences of Periosteoplasty for the Closure of the Maxillary Cleft. Chirurgia Plastica 5: 33-43, 1979
  • Hata Y, Ohmori S. A Method of Reconstruction of the Sublabial Sulcus and the Vermilion Tubercle in the Secondary Repair of the Bilateral Cleft Lip Deformity . British Journal of Plastic Surgery 31: 165-169, 1978