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1. Discuss incidence, genetics, causes and abnormal anatomy seen in cleft lips.
2. When should you schedule a newborn with a cleft lip for repair? Why?
3. How is a lip adhesion done? Why is it advocated by Millard?
4. Discuss preoperative orthodontics. What applicances are used? When and how are they used?
5. Discuss Millard's rotational repair for a unilateral cleft lip.
6. What are two ways of repairing a unilateral cleft lip other than Millards rotation advancement?
7. Name three repairs used for bilateral cleft lip. What are the common problems
after the repair?
8. When and how will you repair a cleft nose deformity initially?
9. What do you do with a severely protruding maxilla in a bilateral cleft lip?
10. When should you bone graft the alveolus?
11. Discuss in utero repair of a cleft lip.
12. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of lip repair at 1 week of age.
13. What postop routine is used for a cleft lip patient?
14. Can a cleft lip breast feed pre-op? Post-op?
15. How do repaired lips do long term? PRS 96:549, 1995.
16. When is enough enough? Read Clinic in PS Jan 1990, pg 37.