Palatal Lengthening Using Buccinator Myomucosal Flaps with Furlow Z-plasty Technique for Primary Cleft Palate Repair

Mahmoud Akram

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cleft Palate, Unilateral, Complete

Treatments: Procedure: furlow z plasty with buccinator myomucosal flap

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04346173

Furlow with buccinator

Details and patient eligibility

About

: Cleft palate is a congenital deformity caused by abnormal facial development during intra-uterine life. Worldwide, the prevalence of cleft lip/palate is about 1:1000 live births.

The levator vela palatini muscles are malpositioned sagittally, running postero-anteriorly and inserted onto the posterior edge of the hard palate in cleft palate patients . This configuration prevents the muscle from exerting its upward, backward, and lateral pull.

Various modalities have been described with major refinements over the past 30 years. Gradually, cleft surgeons began to appreciate the importance of dissection and retro-positioning of the levator muscle on improving speech outcomes.

Furlow was the first to describe the palatoplasty technique, in which the levator muscle is dissected and freely released from its abnormal position and retro-positioned in a Z-plasty lengthening technique without dissection on the hard palate. However , among the problems that have been raised concerning the Furlow palatoplasty is the limitation of the procedure in wide clefts. Furthermore, the possibility of higher fistula rate associated with the technique.

These considerations have led to modified palatal lengthening by buccinator myomucosal flaps which is this study working on.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 18 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients in the age frame between 9 months and 18 months.
• Cleft palate alone or cleft lip and palate patients.
• Patients who have not done any previous palatal repair
• Haemoglobin level above 10 grams.
• Weight above 10 pounds.

Exclusion criteria

• Syndromic patients.
• Medically compromised patients contradicting operation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 1 patient group

furlow z plasty with buccinator myomucosal flap

Experimental group

Description:

using furlow palatoplasty technique accompanied with addition of buccinator myomucosal flap for closure of primary unilateral cleft palate

Treatment:

Procedure: furlow z plasty with buccinator myomucosal flap