Establishment of a novel classification system for alveolar morphology in infants with unilateral complete cleft lip and palate.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Unilateral complete cleft lip and palate (UCCLP) is one of the most severe clinical subtypes among cleft lip and palate (CLP), making repair surgery and subsequent orthodontic treatment particularly challenging. Presurgical nasoalveolar molding (PNAM) has shown conflicting and heterogeneous results in the treatment of UCCLP patients, raising questions about whether the diversity in alveolar anatomical morphology among these patients plays a role in the effectiveness of PNAM treatment.

Materials and methods

We collected 90 digital maxillary models of infants with UCCLP and performed mathematical clustering analysis, including principal component analysis (PCA), decision tree modeling, and area under the ROC Curve (AUC) analysis, to classify alveolar morphology and

SUBMITTER: Li H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10713668 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature