Craniofacial and Cleft Surgery
Cook Children's craniofacial and cleft surgical team specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery for children with face, head and neck conditions that they are born with, or may acquire later due to traumtic injury, disease or developmental disorder.
The Craniofacial and Cleft Surgery program enlists the talents of: neurosciences, primary care physicians, pediatric and neonatal intensive care, anesthesiology, genetics, oral surgery, orthodontics, speech pathology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, pulmonology and radiology. The program works together with other specialties to care for the unique issues of each patient.
Conditions treated
- Cleft lip and palate-primary/secondary
- Speech anomalies-velopharyngeal
incompetence (VPI)
- Facial clefting
- Hemifacial microsomia
Abnormalities of the skull:
- Craniosynostosis
- Positional plagiocephaly
- Traumatic and post surgical
cranial deformities
Abnormalities of the orbits and midface:
- Orbital hypertelorism
- Vertical or horizontal orbital asymmetry
Abnormalities of the jaws:
- Dental dysharmony
- Malocclusion and jaw growth anomalies
Tumors:
- Dermoids
- Fibrous dysplasia
- Neurofibromatosis
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Ear deformities:
Vascular lesions:
- Hemangioma
- Vascular malformations
Named syndromes:
- Apert's
- Beckwith-Wiedemann
- Amniotic band syndrome
- Crouzon's
- Pfeiffer's
- Treacher Collins
- Saethre-Chotzen
- Goldenhar's
- Nager's
- Proteus syndrome
- Pierre Robin
- Romberg's hemifacial atrophy
- Stickler's
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