Cleft and Craniofacial Orthodontics: A Comprehensive Guide

Authored by Travis L. Gibson, this comprehensive reference work provides healthcare professionals with a detailed guide on managing patients with orofacial clefts and complex craniofacial conditions from birth to skeletal maturity.

What You’ll Learn

Cleft and Craniofacial Orthodontics covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Introduction to orofacial clefting: cleft lip and palate anatomy, cleft types and classification, epidemiology, and genetics of cleft lip and palate
• Early management of orofacial clefting: prenatal diagnosis and counseling, feeding infants with clefts, and development of nasoalveolar molding therapy
• Orthodontic treatment: interceptive orthodontics, management of anteroposterior and transverse discrepancies, preparation for alveolar bone grafting, and combined orthodontic-orthognathic management
• Orthodontic and multidisciplinary management of twenty complex craniofacial conditions, including craniofacial microsomia, Treacher-Collins syndrome, and syndromic craniosynostosis

A Multidisciplinary Approach

This book emphasizes the importance of a multidisciplinary team approach in developing a complete plan for patients. It provides essential knowledge for orthodontists, plastic and oral and maxillofacial surgeons, speech and language therapists, pediatric dentists, prosthodontists, and otolaryngologists.

Practical Application

Each chapter is organized to reflect clinical practice, making it easy to apply the information to real-world treatment settings. A companion website offers video clips of surgical and orthodontic procedures to further aid in reader comprehension and application.

By using this comprehensive guide, healthcare professionals can gain a deeper understanding of managing patients with orofacial clefts and complex craniofacial conditions, and develop effective treatment plans to improve patient outcomes.

Published by Wiley, this book is available in English and features ISBN numbers 9781119778349 and 9781119778356.