| Abstract | At the Prince Philip Dental Hospital, Hong Kong, the precursor of the Prince Philip Dental Hospital/Hong Kong University Cleft Lip and Palate Centre (PPDH/HKU CLP Centre) was opened in 1981. Since that time the composition of the team has evolved to include specialists in many different fields of CLP management. These fields of expertise include counselling, assistance with feeding, surgical closure of the lip and palate, speech and hearing assessment and therapy, orthodontics, periodontics, restorative, prosthetic, and preventive dentistry for the child and adult patient, maxillofacial bone osteotomies, and aesthetic lip and nose surgery. This paper describes the role of each specialist and gives the timing for their respective contribution in the long term management of a child born with CLP. |
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