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| Surgery should be delayed until the animal is 12-14 weeks old or longer if possible in order to get the best possible post surgical outcome. More mature tissue is less friable and holds suture better. | | Surgery should be delayed until the animal is 12-14 weeks old or longer if possible in order to get the best possible post surgical outcome. More mature tissue is less friable and holds suture better. |
| Surgical correction is normally only carried out if the defect is small and owners must be warned that more severly affected animals may need multiple procedures. | | Surgical correction is normally only carried out if the defect is small and owners must be warned that more severly affected animals may need multiple procedures. |
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| + | ===Closure of Primary Clefts=== |
| + | Often very difficult to correct surgically, and require planning and multiple surgeries. |
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| ===Closure of secondary clefts=== | | ===Closure of secondary clefts=== |
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| ====Soft Palate defects==== | | ====Soft Palate defects==== |
| + | An overlapping flap technique, flaps from the hard palate and nasopharangeal mucosa flaps can be used to repair soft palate deformities. |
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| + | Post operatively patients shouls be fed via a tube to prevent trauma to the surgical site and to maintain nutritional intake. Dehiscence and recurrence can occur following movement, tension and growth. |
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− | ===Closure of Primary Clefts===
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| ==Prognosis== | | ==Prognosis== |
− | *The commonest structural defect is probably the various forms of cleft palate due to:
| + | Successful repair can result in a good prognosis. |
− | **failure of fusion and the ingrowths of the [[Skull and Facial Muscles - Anatomy & Physiology#Palatine Bone (os palatinum)|palatine]] shelves or
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− | **[[Skull and Facial Muscles - Anatomy & Physiology#Frontal Bone (os frontale)|frontonasal]] and [[Skull and Facial Muscles - Anatomy & Physiology#Maxilla|maxillary]] processes.
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| [[Category:To_Do_-_Caz]] | | [[Category:To_Do_-_Caz]] |