[Primary surgical treatment of lip-jaw-palate clefts in the year 2000. Report of the development of methods in the last 30 years and current status of surgical technique].
In this paper an attempt is made to survey the surgical treatment of cleft lip and palate regarding all classifications and all parts of the cleft. The most important developments up to 30 years ago to have been summarized in Millard's three-volume "Cleft Craft". Therefore, the author tries to analyze the present state-of-the-art cleft surgery. This part is certainly of a subjective nature due to the high rate of complexity in cleft malformations.
Klinik und Poliklinik für Kiefer- und Plastische Gesichtschirurgie, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
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