UM Health-Sparrow Cleft Palate Clinic
This clinic for children who have cleft lip and/or palate or other facial malformations meets once a month. Each visit lasts approximately 4 hours. The clinic is designed to provide examinations, not treatment. Children experience little if any discomfort. The specialists examine each child and work together to develop a comprehensive treatment plan specific to that child. The clinic comes under the guidelines by the State of Michigan for Children's Multidisciplinary Services (CMS).
Treatment objectives
- Normal jaw growth with normal facial form and appearance (normal dentition)
- Normal speech production
- Normal hearing
- Normal chewing/eating
Multidisciplinary Team
The treatment objectives are met through the coordinated efforts of the clinic's multidisciplinary team, including a surgical plan to be performed over a period of years. Children are evaluated on a yearly basis to guide the families of the child as he/she develops and to monitor the progress of the child.
- Pediatrics
- Plastic surgery
- Psychology
- Social work
- Pedodontics oral surgery
- Prosthodontics
- Orthodontics
- Audiology
- Otolaryngology
- Speech therapy
- Nursing
- Nutrition