Cleft lip and palate
Our Results
Cleft lip and palate
Left: A baby with a bilateral cleft lip, a source of anguish to the parents. This child was operated as a neonate. Right: The same baby after a year. Note the full lip, a perfect repair and invisible scar.
Left: bilateral cleft lip, one of the most difficult conditions to give satisfactory results for. Right: The same child after correction. Hard to believe, but true! We put back the smile of child and parents!
Left: Pre op – Picture of a young man with a cleft lip scar – surgery done outside with a less than satisfactory result. Right: Post op – The same youngster after a complex revision of the cleft lip scar. A nearly invisible new scar, and an almost perfect result.
Our department is one of the leading centres in South India for cleft lip and palate surgery. Led by Dr. T. Krishnamurthy who is himself an authority in the above, having published and presented several innovations in the field, his repertoire includes more than 1500 cases of cleft lip and 2000 cases of cleft palate surgery over a span of a practice that has been established over 30 years. We have follow up studies of more than 20 years duration, a feat that can be matched by few centres over the country. Most of the results in our patients are visually stunning, and the change in the child’s face and speech are nothing short of miraculous. We also offer follow up care, speech therapy and an integrated orthodontic approach for this common deformity. We offer correction of cleft scar revision, cleft speech correction and cleft lip nose correction if the patients are not satisfied by the results of the surgery done elsewhere.