Evolution and effectiveness of infant orthopaedics

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Topic- Evolution and effectiveness of infant orthopaedics Background: The cleft lip and palate is the most common Craniofacial anomalies which cause distortion in nasal morphology and alveolar morphology with wide gap between alveolar segments and palate. This wide palatal cleft gap posses a great challenge for the surgeons to approximate alveolar segments and to close palatal cleft gap. Correcting the palatal cleft and restoring the nasal anatomy is crucial part of cleft lip and palate treatement. Inorder to restore the function and esthetics, Infant orthopaedics was introduced to reduce alveolar cleft gap and to ease the surgical closure in the palatal cleft. Initially infant orthopaedics was used for moulding of alveolar arches and palate alone, later on nasal moulding was included along with infant orthopaedics as a part of Nasoalveolar moulding procedure. Currently more controversies have arised regarding the effectiveness of infant orthopaedics in restoring nasal and alveolar morphology. In this review we will study the chronological evolution of infant orthopaedics and its effectiveness in treatement modalities.

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