A randomized prospective clinical trial of the effect of infant orthopedics in unilateral cleft lip and palate: Prevention of collapse of the alveolar segments (Dutchcleft)

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 337-342

  Prahl, Charlotte ^c   Kuijpers Jagtman, Anne M ^b   Van 't Hof, Martin A ^c   Prahl Andersen, Birte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cleft palate; Infant orthopedics; Maxilla; Multicenter; Randomized clinical trial

Indexed keywords

ALVEOLAR BONE; ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLA; NETHERLANDS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALVEOLAR PROCESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENTAL ARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MAXILLA; ORTHODONTICS, PREVENTIVE; PALATAL OBTURATORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037768778     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/1545-1569(2003)040<0337:ARPCTO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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