Presurgical nasal moulding in a neonate with cleft lip
| Autor: | Chirag Macwan, Dixit Shah, Anshula Deshpande |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Cleft Lip Treatment outcome Dentistry Infant General Medicine Surgical correction Prosthesis Design Article stomatognathic diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Treatment Outcome Palatal Obturators Preoperative Care medicine Prosthesis design Humans Female Palatal obturator business Nose |
| Zdroj: | BMJ case reports. 2014 |
| ISSN: | 1757-790X |
| Popis: | The concept of presurgical nasoalveolar moulding (PNM) was developed to improve the aesthetic result of surgically corrected cleft lip. This paper presents the method of fabrication of PNM appliance and the case of a 30-day-old neonate with unilateral cleft lip in whom nasal moulding was performed. Treatment was initiated at 30 days and continued for 60 days after which the surgical correction of cleft lip was performed. Significant improvement in aesthetics and symmetry of the nose was achieved at the end of the treatment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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