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

After antenatal diagnosis or following after birth, the surgeon proposes a meeting with the parents as soon as possible. During this meeting, we detail the different 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 approximately the age of 18. The surgeon introduce the parents to the team members : ENT after the sixth month and then every year, the speech therapist and the orthodontist during the first year and then on a regular basis [6]. It is possible to repair the cleft lip of babies from other European countries. 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.