Friede H, Möller M, Lilja J, Lauritzen C, Johanson B
Scand J Plast Reconstr Surg Hand Surg. 1987;21(1):65-71. doi: 10.3109/02844318709083582.
Cephalometric radiographs and dental study casts were analyzed in a group of 23 seven-year-old cleft lip and palate patients, 16 with unilateral and 7 with bilateral cleft. The patients' primary surgical procedures had been completed except for closure of the cleft in the hard palate. For comparison, similar records from another group of patients, 18 with unilateral and 8 with bilateral cleft lip and palate, were studied. In these cases the cleft of the hard palate had been repaired in infancy, using a vomer flap procedure. The results indicated that midfacial growth and dental occlusion of the unilateral cleft sample was significantly better in patients whose closure of the hard palatal cleft had been delayed to the stage of mixed dentition than where repair had been performed with a vomer flap in infancy. No differences were found, however, between similar subgroups with bilateral cleft lip and palate.
对一组23名七岁唇腭裂患者的头影测量X线片和牙模进行了分析，其中16名单侧唇腭裂患者，7名双侧唇腭裂患者。除硬腭裂隙闭合外，患者的初次外科手术均已完成。为作比较，研究了另一组唇腭裂患者的类似记录，其中18名单侧唇腭裂患者，8名双侧唇腭裂患者。在这些病例中，硬腭裂隙在婴儿期采用犁骨瓣手术进行了修复。结果表明，与婴儿期采用犁骨瓣修复的患者相比，硬腭裂隙闭合延迟至混合牙列期的单侧唇腭裂患者样本的面中部生长和牙合情况明显更好。然而，双侧唇腭裂的类似亚组之间未发现差异。
