title: Treatment of patients with cleft lip, alveolus and palate--a short outline of history and current interdisciplinary treatment approaches.
abstract: Clefts of lip, alveolus and palate have been known for a long time. First tangible evidence of surgical therapy in terms of cheiloplasty, however, does not date further back than the 4th century after Christ. It was Werner Hagedorn from Magdeburg who laid the foundations of geometrical anatomical surgical lip repair in 1884. The procedures designed by LeMesurier, Tennison, Randall or Millard in the 1950s, and by Pfeifer in 1970 are part of today's cleft therapy applied by the different schools of surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Würzburg, Germany. praxis@drbill.de
authors.forename: Josip
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bill
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Proff
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bayerlein
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weingaertner
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fanghänel
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reuther
mesh_terms: D001860:Bone Plates / Q000266:history; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team