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Classifying the Wide Clinical Spectrum of Cleft Lip and Palate

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Orofacial clefts present a broad phenotypic expression, with several possible clinical combinations of unilateral or bilateral cleft lip with or without cleft palate. Multiple cleft classification systems have been proposed to assist diagnosis, clinical and surgical management, and research, but none sufficiently encompass all the cleft phenotypes. This chapter provides a broad description of cleft classification systems. It also highlights the wide clinical spectrum of cleft lip and palate, encompassing the well-recognized overt cleft forms and the new-described subclinical cleft forms.

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Denadai, R., Lo, LJ. (2022). Classifying the Wide Clinical Spectrum of Cleft Lip and Palate. In: Denadai, R., Lo, LJ. (eds) Current Concept in Cleft Surgery. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3163-5_8

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