A Visual Guide for Cleft Surgeons

Marco Kesting, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent., FEBOMFS, first finished dental school in 1998, then medical school in 2003, both at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. After working as a dentist in private practice until 2002, he completed his training in maxillofacial surgery at the University of Bochum and Munich Technical University (TUM), where he also became Associate Professor in 2009. After his residency, he remained at TUM as a senior consultant and head of onco-reconstructive and maxillofacial surgery. He then became senior consultant and deputy head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and coordinator of the certified Centre for Head and Neck Cancer at TUM. Since 2017 he has been head of the Department for Oral and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery at Erlangen University Hospital. Professor Kesting is Fellow of the European Board of Oro-Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery.

Rainer Lutz, PD Dr. med. Dr. med. dent., FEBOMFS, received his dental degree in 2006 and his medical degree in 2011, both at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Subsequently he completed his training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University Hospital Erlangen in 2017. After his residency, he became a senior physician. His research work contributes to regenerative biomaterials, oral medicine and maxillofacial constructive and reconstructive surgery. He became Associate Professor in 2018 and, since 2021, managing senior physician and deputy clinic director at the Department of Oral and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery at Erlangen University Hospital. Dr Lutz is Fellow of the European Board of Oro-Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery.

Manuel Weber, PD Dr. med. Dr. med. dent., completed medical school at the University of Regensburg in 2010. In 2015 Dr Weber received his dental degree at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Afterwards he worked as a resident at Erlangen University Hospital, Germany and completed his training in oral and maxillofacial surgery in 2020. On the basis of his research activities he became Associate Professor in 2020 and has been working since then as senior physician at the Department of Oral and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery at Erlangen University Hospital. He has also been coordinator of the Erlangen Head and Neck Cancer Centre since 2019.

Preface

1. Unilateral Lip Plasty

1.1. History and Development of Techniques

1.2. Relevant Anatomy

1.3. Teaching Model for Unilateral Lip Plasty

1.4. Technique of Lip Plasty in an Incomplete Unilateral Cleft Lip

1.5. Technique of Lip Plasty in a Complete Unilateral Cleft Lip

1.6. Recommended Reading

2. Bilateral Lip Plasty

2.1. History and Development of Techniques

2.2. Relevant Anatomy

2.3. Teaching Model for Bilateral Lip Plasty

2.4. Technique of Lip Plasty in an Asymmetric Bilateral Cleft Lip

2.5. Technique of Lip Plasty in a Symmetric Bilateral Cleft Lip

2.6. Recommended Reading

3. Palatoplasty

3.1. History and Development of Techniques

3.2. Relevant Anatomy

3.3. Technique of Palatoplasty in Isolated Cleft Palates

3.4. Technique of Palatoplasty in Bilateral Cleft Lip and Palate

3.5. Recommended Reading

4. Secondary Osteoplasty of the Alveolar Cleft

4.1. History and Development of Techniques

4.1.1. Primary Osteoplasty

4.1.2. The Way to Secondary Osteoplasty

4.2. Technique of Secondary Bone Grafting of the Alveolar Cleft

4.3. Recommended Reading

5. Transverse Cleft Plasty

5.1. History and Development of Techniques and Related Anatomy

5.2. Technique of Lip PLasty in a Transverse Cleft Lip

5.3. Recommended Reading