Treatment outcome after one-stage repair in children with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate assessed with the Goslon Yardstick.
OBJECTIVE
To compare results of Golson Yardstick measurement of dental arch relationships in a sample of 10-year-old Polish children with results of the Golson measurement in published reports.


METHODS
Plaster models of 28 consecutively treated subjects with unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) that was repaired with a one-stage simultaneous closure performed in the first year of life. All individuals were born between 1994 and 1995. The Goslon score (categories 1 to 5) was allocated. Intra- and interrater agreement was assessed with kappa statistics and Pearson correlation coefficient. Independent t tests were employed to detect difference between the score in the present and other published samples.


RESULTS
Mean Goslon score equaled 2.44; 57% of the patients were allocated Goslon category 1 or 2, 32% were rated Goslon 3, and 11% of the patients were assigned category 4 or 5. Intrarater agreement was between 0.75 and 0.77. Interrater agreement was 0.79.


CONCLUSIONS
Dental arch relationship following one-stage repair was comparable with the results of the centers with the best outcome.
Fudalej
Piotr
P
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Institute of Mother and Child, Kasprzaka Str. 17a, Warsaw, Poland. pfudalej@gmail.com
Hortis-Dzierzbicka
Maria
M
Obloj
Barbara
B
Miller-Drabikowska
Dorota
D
Dudkiewicz
Zofia
Z
Romanowska
Anna
A
D002648:Child; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000601:surgery*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery*; D003724:Dental Arch / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008445:Maxillofacial Development; D003765:Models, Dental; D011044:Poland; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D016896:Treatment Outcome