Cleft palate surgery should refer to cleft palate repair, which is a type of surgery that requires general anesthesia intubation, is more traumatic, takes longer, bleeds more, and may carry anesthesia risk, and risk of postoperative complications.
1. Anesthesia risk: Because cleft palate repair requires general anesthesia intubation, due to the trauma of endotracheal intubation or compression of the intubation, it will lead to edema of the pharynx, resulting in respiratory and swallowing difficulties, or even asphyxia. Intraoperative tracheal intubation should be selected as appropriate, and the intubation should be gentle and minimize trauma to reduce the occurrence of anesthetic risk.
2. Postoperative complications: some complications may occur after cleft palate repair, such as bleeding, swelling, postoperative asphyxia, local infection, wound cracking and so on. In order to prevent the occurrence of postoperative complications, the operator should be gentle during the operation to minimize the trauma to the tissues, pay attention to oral hygiene after the operation, and encourage the children to drink more water after eating and drinking to prevent the food residues from staying in the wound margins, etc., in order to prevent infections.
Cleft palate repair surgery is a kind of complicated surgery, patients with cleft palate should go to a professional medical institution in time, and have the cleft palate repair surgery completed by a professional dentist with rich clinical experience and skillful surgical operation, so as to avoid the adverse consequences.