Cleft lip is divided into unilateral cleft lip and bilateral cleft lip. Cleft lip repair is a kind of highly demanding elective surgery, clinically, most of the selected children’s birth weight reaches 10 pounds, hemoglobin reaches 10 grams per liter or more, the timing is about ten weeks after the birth of the child and other “children three ten” standards, generally unilateral cleft lip can be about 3 months, bilateral cleft lip can be about 6 months for surgery.
1. Unilateral cleft lip: In unilateral cleft lip, as long as the general condition of the child can tolerate the general anesthesia intubation and surgical trauma, cleft lip repair can be performed. Clinically, most of the children are selected to be operated around 3 months of their birth, in order to restore the normal upper lip shape and the normal anatomical shape of the affected side of the nose as soon as possible.
2. Bilateral cleft lip: Because of the serious deformity of bilateral cleft lip and the large surgical trauma, the surgery is usually carried out 6 months after the birth of the child, so as to restore the shape and function of the upper lip as early as possible.
Children with cleft lip should seek medical treatment in time, complete the examination, and the professional dentist will determine the best timing and surgical method according to the child’s general condition and growth, in order to achieve the purpose of successful surgery.