Heather Keall

• Orthodontist at Counties Manukau District Health Board

Objectives To evaluate dental arch relationships of patients with complete unilateral and complete bilateral cleft lip and palate (CUCLP/CBCLP) in New Zealand. Setting and Sample Population Retrospective nationwide observational outcomes study involving 100 CUCLP and 32 CBCLP non‐syndromic patients. Material and Methods Four calibrated assessors,...

The authors aimed to accurately assess the donor site morbidity from iliac crest bone grafts for secondary bone grafting in patients with cleft lip and palate alveolar defects. Fifty patients between 3 months and 10 years following alveolar bone grafting for cleft lip and palate were entered into the study. Two-thirds of patients had no significant...

Distraction osteogenesis is a relatively new technique in the field of oral and maxillo-facial surgery. It is being increasingly employed to help rehabilitate various craniofacial abnormalities. This case report describes its use in a 20-year-old male who was born with a bilateral cleft of the lip and palate.

The effect of orbicularis muscle repair on postoperative facial skeletal growth in bilateral cleft lip and palate patients was studied by analysis of cephalometric radiographs and dental casts. Sixty-two patients operated on between 1961-1989 were selected for the study. They were divided into three groups, group 1a (muscle repair; n = 12), group 1...

Nasal obstruction represents a considerable portion of the symptoms addressed by the otolaryngologist. It has received widespread interest in the orthodontic literature as well, because of the presumed relation between nasal obstruction and facial growth, especially vertical maxillary excess. The range of normal variation in oral versus nasal breat...