What else do cleft lip and palate patients need after cleft lip and palate surgery?

Patient: Born with congenital cleft lip and palate, had cleft lip surgery at 8 months and cleft palate surgery at 4 years old. Now he wants to have a repair surgery to fix the scar of the lip and the tooth bed, and the nose is a little crooked. Yang Bin, Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery Center, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences: According to the modern principles and methods of serial plastic repair of cleft lip and palate, it is now time to do the repair of the cleft in the alveolar process, which is conducive to the growth of permanent teeth out to the normal position, making the dental alignment neat and the bite relationship normal. At the same time, lip and nose repair can be done.