Multidisciplinary Approach to Management of Cleft Lip and Palate

The craniofacial orthodontist is actively involved in the life of a patient born with a craniofacial deformity and/or cleft lip and palate from birth through skeletal maturity. This may include infant presurgical orthopedics, early mixed dentition treatment, dentofacial orthopedics and orthodontics, preparation for alveolar bone graft procedures, adolescent/adult orthodontics, preprosthetic orthodontics, and pre- and postsurgical orthodontics.