1, cleft lip and palate surgery mainly includes cleft lip repair, cleft palate repair and alveolar cleft bone grafting. The complexity of the operation is self-evident, and the treatment of cleft lip and palate can not be completed by two operations at one time. With the problems of children's growth and development at all stages, multidisciplinary doctors will cooperate to solve them, which is often called sequential treatment.
2. On the other hand, the treatment of cleft lip and palate is not only a cosmetic treatment process, because cleft lip and palate will affect some functional activities such as sucking and pronunciation, and the loss of muscle balance will also affect the normal development of dentition. Complex cleft lip and palate will cause serious dentofacial deformities due to the continuous interruption of maxilla and muscles around maxilla, and the functions of speech, hearing, breathing, chewing and swallowing will also be disturbed to varying degrees. In other words, the operation has repaired the cleft palate and improved the velopharyngeal closure, but only completed the physiological conditions needed for normal pronunciation. The rehabilitation of pronunciation training is a very important and difficult process.
Therefore, whether from surgery or rehabilitation training is a long and difficult process.