Aziz Shahid R, Puran Anita
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Quintessence Int. 2012 May;43(5):397-400.
It is rare for surgeons in the United States to perform primary repair of a cleft lip on an adult. However, in developing nations with limited specialized health care, late presentation for primary cheiloplasty occurs due to limitations in access to care, lack of awareness of treatment availability, and inability to afford treatment. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons who participate in humanitarian surgical mission trips to the developing world may encounter this subpopulation of cleft patients. The following case report describes the repair of an incomplete bilateral cleft lip in a 68-year-old man performed during a mission trip to rural Bangladesh. Based on an extensive literature search, this is the oldest patient to have undergone primary cheiloplasty reported in the English-language surgical literature.
在美国，外科医生对成人进行唇裂一期修复的情况很少见。然而，在专门医疗保健有限的发展中国家，由于获得医疗服务的机会有限、对现有治疗缺乏认识以及无力承担治疗费用，唇裂一期修复术的就诊时间较晚。参加前往发展中世界的人道主义外科任务的口腔颌面外科医生可能会遇到这类唇裂患者。以下病例报告描述了在一次前往孟加拉国农村的任务中，为一名68岁男性进行的不完全双侧唇裂修复手术。根据广泛的文献检索，这是英文外科文献中报道的接受唇裂一期修复术的年龄最大的患者。
