Title

Naso-alveolar molding for newborn cleft lip and palate

Authors

Rohit Breh¹, Pankaj Singodia² & Shitun Sarangi¹

Affiliation

¹Department of Dentistry, Tata Main Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India; ²Department of Plastic Surgery, Tata Main Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Rohit Breh - E-mail: rohit.breh@tatasteel.com
Pankaj Singodia - E-mail: pankaj.singodia@tatasteel.com
Shitun Sarangi - E-mail: Shitun.sarangi@tatasteel.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received April 2, 2022; Revised May 31, 2022; Accepted May 31, 2022, Published May 31, 2022

The nasoalveolarmolding (NAM) technique is a relatively new approach to pre-surgical infant orthopedics that reduces the severity of the initial cleft alveolar and nasal deformity before surgery. This technique has proved to be an effective adjunctive therapy for reducing cleft deformity before surgery. Data on NAM are inconsistent with changes in nasal symmetry. However, there is a trend towards a positive effect. Therefore, it is of interest to report clinicians an overview of NAM appliance and method for nasal symmetry assessment to facilitate greater usage of this technique in contemporary practice. Thus, the biomechanics of pre-surgical infant orthopedics and of nasal stent that skillfully shape alveolus and nasal cartilage is explained.

Keywords

Naso-alveolar molding (NAM), pre-surgical infant ortho-pedics, cleft lip, cleft palate, nasal stent

Citation

Breh et al. Bioinformation 18(5): 492-495 (2022)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.