How will we organize the reviews with the different cleft team members ?

After antenatal diagnosis or after birth, the surgeon proposes a meeting with the parents as soon as possible. During this meeting, we details the methods of cleft repair [6].

Ideally, children with cleft lip and palate are treated by a specialist "cleft team" which includes plastic paediatric surgeon, ENT surgeon as well as speech therapist and orthodontist. Care and support of the child and the family should last from birth until the child stops growing at about 18 years old. The surgeon introduce the parents to the team members : ENT after the sixth month then every year, the speech therapist and the orthodontist the first year then on a regilar basis. It is possible to repair the cleft lip of European babies with prior agreement of the policy of the original country. Health insurance will pay for all or part of the necessary care.

6. JN. Mcheik et al. Cleft lip and palate : indications for radiological postnatal explorations. Archives de pédiatrie. 2008 ; 15 : 1388-92.