Transverse Facial Cleft Repair Using Precise Location of Commissure

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Transverse Facial Cleft

Treatments: Procedure: precise location of commissure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03282721

S-K338

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare the effect of redesigned transverse facial cleft treatment and traditional transverse facial cleft treatment.

Full description

Nine patients with transverse facial cleft were treated with redesigned repair using precise location of commissure. The main outcome measurement included scar, symmetry of the commissure. They were graded in five scores by five resident physicians who had never seen the patients. The results were compared with healthy controls.

Enrollment: 9 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 months to 5 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of transverse facial cleft disease;
• Must not received any lip surgeries before;
• Such disease can be accompanied by external ear abnormalities, hypoplastic mandible, cleft lip and palate.

Exclusion criteria

• Severe general diseases;
• Patients who had been treated with lip surgery;
• Patients and/or his/her family didn't want to continue the clinical trial.

Trial design

9 participants in 2 patient groups

redesigned

Description:

the commissure constructions of the cleft side were precised located, include the upper and lower inherent vermilion border, the interior commissure, the outline of commissure, the exterior commissure, the upper skin-mucosa junction and the lower skin-mucosa junction.

Treatment:

Procedure: precise location of commissure

classical

Description:

follows the simple-symmetry rule, the commissure of the healthy side is measured, and then the affected side is located accordingly.