Clefts (Centre)
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At St. Luke's Hospital, we always try for the best. The treatment of clefts requires a high level at every step of the treatment, both by medical, nursing staff and special associates, as well as by technological and building equipment. Thus, the treatment of clefts is excellent, immediate and easy. This, of course, is immediately understood, not only by the specialised way of managing the clefts, but also as a philosophy that governs St. Luke's Hospital in general.
At St. Luke's Hospital operates the first organised and certified Cleft Centre in Greece, where the problem of cleft is comprehensively treated with the assistance of all the necessary medical specialties and in accordance with the international protocols of treatment and rehabilitation. Already in our Clinic, 25 cases have been treated with absolute success and with the best possible final result.
Cleft is a common malformation that people unfortunately often refer to as a cleft lip or cleft palate. Clefts are a category of cases of incomplete convergence of head tissues, about the 5th to 9th week of pregnancy.
The cleft lip and cleft palate are the incomplete convergence of the lip, jaw (or alveolar apophysis) and palate (soft and hard). The cleft can occur individually in one of the anatomical areas or in combination of all the above. It can also be unilateral or bilateral.
In our country it occurs in a ratio of 1:600-700 births. The development of medical technology makes it possible to diagnose the existence of clefts from the embryonic stage with ultrasound examination.
The causes are not yet clear and it is difficult to explain why a cleft occurs. We know that there are:
These factors contribute to the occurrence of cleft, but we do not know the exact causes. Heredity does not follow simple patterns. Hereditary features may be hidden and not appear in every generation. For the appearance of a cleft, hereditary factors must coincide with other factors. This is still difficult to fully understand.
The problems that are created in children with cleft, immediately after their birth, are:
A new baby brings a lot of emotions, such as joy, pride, and sometimes fear. When the baby has a particular medical condition, there is an additional sense of uncertainty and insecurity, and many other similar feelings and questions, such as:
In our Clinic we can treat children with clefts fully. There is responsibility, scientific training, as well as a series of medical steps that are strictly observed by all the doctors involved. This is the most important point for the best treatment, since for example the diagnosis starts from the prenatal examination and not after the birth of the child, to follow the appropriate medical specialty at the appropriate age.
Therefore, in summary, the following applies:
The following is a table of chronological treatment:
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon
Head of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
"Clefts are objectively a situation that needs to be treated from many medical aspects. The cooperation of various specialties gives the best possible result. This collaboration begins with prenatal testing with ultrasound and geneticist for information to parents. The rehabilitation of these children by today's standards is complete and their life is perfectly normal, since the cleft does not imply a syndrome. The only concern for these little patients, but also their parents, is that the treatment is done gradually, over time.
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