CLEFT LIP AND PALATE- PART 2 – CLASSIFICATION, CLINIC FEATURES AND MANAGEMENT – Dentowesome

Muhad Noorman P, Final year Team dentowesome.

CLASSIFICATIONS OF CLEFT LIP AND PALATE

Davis & Ritchie classification (1922)

Veau’s (1931)

Harkins and associates(1962)

Kernahan’s Classification (1971)

Spina (1974)

Tessiers’s Classification.

VEAU’S CLASSIFICATION

Group 1- Cleft of soft palate only

Group 2 – Cleft of hard and soft palate extending no further extending than involving incisive foramen, (secondary palate only)

Group 3 – Complete unilateral cleft, extending from uvula

to incisive foramen in the midline, then deviating the one side and usually extending through the alevolus at the position of the future lateral incisor

Group 4- Complete bilateral cleft, extending forward through incisive foramen to alevolus. Premaxilla, suspended from the nasal septum .

Asian population have highest frequency often