Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair Age
Surgeries typically are performed in this order.
Bilateral cleft lip repair age. Cleft lip is typically repaired between 3 and 6 months of age. The goal of cleft lip surgery is to repair the separation of the lip. Cleft lip repair within the first 3 to 6 months of age cleft palate repair by the age of 12 months or earlier if possible follow up surgeries between age 2 and late teen years. These children had cleft palate repair 6 months later.
In a study of 50 consecutive nonsyndromic children median age 5 4 years the revision rate was 33 for bilateral complete lip palate and 12 for bilateral complete lip alveolus with an intact secondary palate 20. The best age to fix a cleft lip or palate although there are some different schools of thought on the matter most plastic surgeons believe that the ideal patient age for undergoing cleft palate repair surgery is between 6 to 18 months of age though the favored age for cleft lip repair is generally much earlier at about 10 to 12 weeks old. In children operated on for bilateral cleft lip repair younger than 1 year without any preoperative orthopedic the size of the premaxilla was documented clinically and confirmed on the dental models. School age is the first time to make a formal assessment of outcome based on types of revision.