title: An 11-year follow-up of the effects of early bone grafting in infants born with complete clefts of the lip and palate.
abstract: This is a report at the age of 11 years of a clinical study of the effects of early bone grafting in infants born with complete clefts of the lip and palate. Matched pairs of similar cleft type were treated according to the same treatment protocol with the exception that only one of each pair received an autogenous rib bone graft at the age of 15 months. The overall impression left by this study is that early bone grafting is not beneficial to the patient.
mesh_terms: D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002508:Cephalometry; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000601:surgery*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery*; D003766:Dental Occlusion; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009811:Odontometry; D013997:Time Factors