Purpose: evaluation of craniofacial morphology in preadolescent subjects with a repaired cleft of primary palate.
Methods: 21 girls and 10 boys aged 11 years, with unilateral cleft of primary palate (14 with cleft lip and 17 with cleft lip and alveolus) were matched according to age and gender with subjects without cleft. Craniofacial morphology was evaluated based on performed cephalograms.
Results: upper incisors were retroclined (1/PP angle decreased by 6.3 degree), and maxilla and mandible were positioned posteriorly (SNA and SNB angle decreased by 1.9 degree and 2.1 degree, respectively). Mandibular morphology did not show any difference between groups.
Conclusions: craniofacial growth in preadolescent individuals with surgically repaired cleft of primary palate is insignificantly disturbed.