Management of Cleft Lip and Palate : Role of Paedodontist

Dr. Gaurav M. Chawda is presently pursuing post graduation course of Paediatric and Preventive dentistry from K.M.Shah Dental College, Gujarat, India. Dr. Seema Bargale is a guide and professor in Sumandeep Vidyapeeth. She has successfully completed more than 25 original articles and case reports.

"The love of life is next to love of our own faces and thus the mutilated cry for help." Clefting is one of the most common birth defects and one of the most repairable. This book is a comprehensive, well illustrated and up to date account providing many facets of this common disorder. The book draws together various disciples like cleft causation and illustrates genetic and epidemiological methods to identify risk factors. A section is also devoted to detail the diagnostic techniques to determine the best protocols for optimal results and decrease chances of re treatment. Throughout the discussion of growth and treatment concepts the importance of differential diagnosis is underscored and the underlying argument is that all of the treatment goals- good speech, facial aesthetics, dental occlusion and psychological development may be realized without the need to sacrifice one for another. It is the author's hope that by drawing on wealth of experience contained in the book, clinicians will be better able to evaluate current treatment practices and concepts and to improve planning of their own treatment procedures.