Surgical Management of Cleft Lip and Palate

Functional Lip Closure and Passive Palatal Molding Versus Nasoalveolar Molding.- Primary Unilateral Cleft-Lip/Nose Repair.- Primary Bilateral Cleft-Lip/Nose Repair.- A Two-Staged Cleft-Palate Repair.- Robotic Assisted Trans Oral Cleft Palate Surgery (TORCS).- Early Secondary Alveolar Bone Grafting.- Case Presentations.

Nasser Nadjmi, MD, DDS, PhD, FEBOMFS, is Professor and Coordinating Program Director for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Director of the Team for Cleft Lip and Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies at the University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium. He is the chairman of the department of Cranio-Maxillofacial surgery at the Univ. Hosp., Antwerp, Belgium and works at the private practice 'Craniofacial Association Antwerp' at the Gen. Hosp. Monica and Gen. Hosp. KLINA, Antwerp, Belgium. Dr. Nadjmi gained his DDS and MD at The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He finished his basic training in maxillofacial surgery in Belgium and subsequently completed fellowships in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in Houston, Texas, and in Cosmetic Surgery in Miami, Florida, USA. He became a Fellow of the European Association of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgeons (European board-certified maxillofacial surgeon) in 2002.In 2011 Dr. Nadjmi completed a PhD at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands on "The evolution of 3D maxillofacial planning concepts in orthognathic surgery".