Pre/Post Surgical Orthopedics Course for the Treatment of Cleft Lip and Palate

For the past 23 years at the Craniofacial Center and Plastic Surgery at Nicklaus Children's Hospital, we have worked on the presurgical and postsurgical treatment of patients with cleft lip and palate.

This course will present our experience, techniques, and results in managing cleft lip and palate patients. The course lasts approximately two and a half days in theoretical and practical, with the laboratory to make the presurgical devices (POA is a modification of the NAM) and RAS (Rhinoplasty Appliance System). Our 3D printer system. This course will be intensive and focused on providing all the knowledge and tools for the interdisciplinary management of patients with cleft lip and palate.

This course is aimed at Plastic surgeons, maxillofacial surgeons, orthodontists, pediatric dentists, dentofacial orthopedics, and prosthodontists. A detailed pre- and post-surgical treatment manual and a Nicklaus Children's Hospital certificate for managing patients with cleft lip and palate will be delivered.

Topics:

• Introduction and general concepts
• Interdisciplinary Management and Genetics
• Psychological management
• Physiology and anatomy of Cleft patients
• Feeding techniques
• Pre- and post-surgical treatment protocols.
• Description of surgical techniques. (Gingivoperoplasty, unilateral and bilateral)
  Impression techniques
• Manufacture of apparatus and adjustments
• Clinical evaluation
• Managing complications
• Long-term case research and evaluation

Presenters

The course will be presented by:

Dr. Martha Mejía

Dentofacial Orthopedist

Martha Mejia is a dentist from Colombia who specializes in Dentofacial orthopedics. She works at 2000 with Dr. Samuel Berkowitz as a Research associate evaluating Craniofacial treatments. For the past 27 years, she has been treating patients with craniofacial problems and conducting research assessing the treatment of cleft lip and palate patients. Since 2001, she has been a member of the Craniofacial team at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami. She has been a consultant and reviewer of presurgical treatment for Smile Train Express since 2018 and has been a consultant for SAMAC Smile Train (South America Advisory Council). She is an international lecturer and 1996 founded the Sonríe Foundation in Pereira, Colombia, for the comprehensive management of patients with clefts. After many years of clinical practice, her experience brought her to develop devices to treat cleft palate patients, the most important of which is the “Rhinoplasty Appliance System,” patented in 2021.

Lecturers

Dr. Mislen Bauer
Clinical Genetics
Director of the Craniofacial Program

Dr. Chad Perlyn
Plastic & Craniofacial Surgeon
NCPS President

Dr. Jordan Steinberg
Plastic Surgeon
Surgical Director of the Craniofacial Program

Dr. Marina Villani-Capo
Psychologist

Dra. JoAnn Vargas
Speech Pathologist

Agenda

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