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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.

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===

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Often very difficult to correct surgically, and require planning and multiple surgeries.

===Closure of secondary clefts===

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====Soft Palate defects====

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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===~~

==Prognosis==

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*The commonest structural defect is probably the various forms of cleft palate due to:

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Successful repair can result in a good prognosis.

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**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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~~- aspiration pneumonia is a common sequel~~

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~~[[Category:Oral Cavity - Developmental Pathology]]~~

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