Annual visits in the 4-6 year range center around speech. Kids are now able to participate more with an evaluation.

Cleft Lip Repair Before & After Photo. Surgery performed in Dallas, TX at Law Plastic Surgery.

A sweet annual visit with this girl headed to visit the bright lights of Disney World soon!

Annual visits in the 4-6 year range center around speech. Kids are now able to participate more with an evaluation. Parents often also have a few videos of their kids speaking at home to give some more context and information to go off of.

Rarely, patients have come as far as possible with speech therapy, but anatomically need a lengthening of the palate, or closure of the space in the back directly with a pharyngeal flap.

At this visit, we also start talking about teeth, orthodontics, and getting ready for bone grafting to fill the gap in bone. That grafted bone then gives a place in which the teeth around it can live happily and securely.

Also rarely, we also discuss a revision of a cleft lip or nose repair. Sometimes the septum of the nose is causing severe nasal obstruction. Sometimes patients had poor healing from their original surgery due to an infection or a fall.

For more, visit our Cleft Lip Repair page or call us at (214) 241-1997.

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📍 Plano, TX
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Case Details
Even wider clefts are able to be repaired in a single stage with our technique.
The skin markings are a hybrid of techniques based on Millard / Noordhoff / Chang Gung / Fisher principles.

Adequate muscle release and reorientation is crucial for that Goldilocks-level of lip rotation and balance.

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