CLEFT 2008 Dallas, USA

Moderators: Kenneth E.Salyer, MD and Frank Abyholm, MD

1. “Improving Cleft Services” by William Shaw DDS., PhD
2. “Long ter results – 18 years in UCLP Pts” by Wanda Gnoinski DDS., PhD
3. “Team Care and Sequence of Interventions of Cleft Lip and Palate” by Karin Vargervik DDS., PhD
4. “20 year follow up of patients with Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate” by Gunvor Semb DDS., PhD
5. “Early Cleft Repair Left Untreated” by Manuel Velazquez MD
6. “Same surgical hands performing the same CLP methods: Difference in Long Term Results” by Rolf Tindlund DDS., PhD

Keynote Addresses

1. “Recent Genetic Developments in Craniofacial Biology” by Rena D’Souza DDS., PhD
2. “Fybrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva” by Jay C. Groppe PhD
3. “Current knowledge of the Pathologic Anatomy in Unilateral and Bilateral Cleft Newborns” by Jean-Claude Talmant MD
4. “The Physiology of Functional Cleft Lip Surgery” by David Precious DDS

Moderators: Fernando Ortiz-Monasterio, MD and C. Thomas MD

1. “Primary Lip/Nose Repair” by Frank Abyholm MD
2. “Primary Lip/Nose Repair Closed Technique” by Kenneth E.Salyer MD
3. “Primary Rhinoplasty by Open Approach with Repair of Cleft Lip’ by C. Thomas MD
4. “Primary Repair of Complete Unilateral Lip/Nose: Ten Consecutive Cases 10 Years Later” by Jean-Claude Talmant MD
5. “25 Years Experience with the Malek All in One Technique” by Albert De Mey MD
6. “Early Nasal Correction in Clefts” by Fernando Ortiz-Monasterio MD

Moderators: Court Cutting MD and Albert Demey MD

1. “Bilateral Lip/Nose using NAM” by Court Cutting MD
2. “All in one technique: Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair with Management of Pre-Maxilla” by Albert Demey MD
3. “Primary Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair with Management of Pre-Maxilla” by Jyotsna Murthy MD
4. “Primary Repair of Complete Bilateral: Ten Consecutive Cases 10 years later” by Jean-Claude Talmant MD
5. “Primary Rhinoplasty by Open Approach Along with Repair of Cleft Lip” by C.Thomas MD
6. “Primary Bilater Lip/Nose Repair: My approach of 38 years” by Kenneth E.Salyer MD

Moderators: AL Figueroa DDS., MS and Barry Grayson MD

1. “Treatment of the Bilateral Cleft Patient Using NAM” by Barry Grayson DDS
2. “Passive Infant Orthopaedics” by Wanda Gnoinski DDS
3. “Passive Infant Orthopaedics: No Need To Do It!” by Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman DDS
4. “20 Years Follow-Up of Patients with Complete Bilateral Cleft Lip/Palate” by Gunvor Semb DDS
5. “Long-term Results: 18 Years in BCLP Patients” by Wanda Gnoinski DDS
6. “Long-term Results of BCLP Treatment” by Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman DDS

1. “Primary Unilateral and Bilateral Cleft a Rational and Functional Protocol” by Jean Claude Talmant MD
2. “Long-term Results with our Protocol in Halifax” by David Precious DDS
3. “The Oslo Experience in the Treatment of Primary Lip/Nose/Palate” by Frank Abyholm MD
4. “40 Years Experience in the Treatment of Cleft-lip/Nose/Palate from infancy through Adulthood – Dallas Protocol” by Kenneth E.Salyer MD
5. “The Open Approach to Primary Cleft Lip/Nose” by C.Thomas MD
6. “25 Years Experience with Primary and Secondary Lip/Nose – Mexico City Protocol” by Fernando Ortiz -Monasterio MD 

Moderators: Brian Sommerlad MD and Mutaz Habal MD

1. “The Evolution of my Techinque of Palater Repair” by Brian Sommerlad MD
2. “Two-Flap Palatoploasty: My Technique” by Court B. Cutting MD
3. “Two-Stage Palate Repair: Long Term Experience” by Louis Morales MD
4. “How to Repair Clefts by Double Opposing Z-Plasty” by Leonard Furlow MD
5. “Double Opposing Z-Palatoplasty Modification” by Leonard Furlow MD
6. “Long-term Speech Results of Children’s Hospital – Modification of the Double Opposing Z-Palatoplasty” by Marilyn Cohen, LSLP
7. “Basic Speech Assessment” by David Kuehn PhD
8. “Long-terms Results of Two-Flap Palatoplasty” by Elizabeth Sperry ScD

Moderators: David Kuehn PhD and Samuel Berkowitz DDS

1. “When should we perform a palatoplasty and why?” by Sally Peterson-Falzone PhD
2. “When should Palataplastics be Performed – Timing” by Samuel Berkowitz DDS
3. “Speech and Growth after Cleft Palate Repair: Does it have to be Compromised?” by Brian Sommerlad MD
4. “Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computer Reconstruction of the Velopharyngeal Mechanism” by David Keuhn PhD
5. “Diagnosing V.P. Function: Where we are today compared to 40 years ago” by Robert Shprinzten PhD

Moderators: Robert Brusati DDS and Gunvor Semb DDS

1. “Secondary Bone Grafting of Alveolar Clefts” by Frank Abyholm MD
2. “Factors that Influnce the Outcome of Alveolar Bone Grafting-Results from 1276 Cleft cities” by Gunvor Semb MD
3. “Gingivoperiosteoplasty for Alveolar Clefts” by Court B. Cutting DDS
4. “Factors that influence the outcome of Gingivoperiosteoplasty – Our Experience” by Barry H. Grayson DDS
5. ” Conservative (no PSOT-no GPP) vs. POPLA (Latham-Millard Jr.) NO NAM – NO GPP (Cutting Grayson) by Samuel Berkowitz DDS
6. “How to Perform Alveolar Bone Grafts with no Post-Graft Fistulae” by David Precious DDS

Moderators: Sally Peterson-Falzone PhD and Robert Shprintzen PhD

1. “What can speech therapy accomplish that I cannot?” by Sally Peterson-Falzone PhD
2. “The relationship between V.P Function and Speech Outcome as seen by Speech Pathologists and Plastic Surgeons” by Leonard Furlow MD
3. “Palate Re-pair” by Brian Sommerlad MD
4. “Palate Lengthening via Distraction Osteogenesis for V.P.I Treatment” by Cesar Guerrero DDS
5. “Long term results of the Management of Isolated Cleft Palate” by David David MD
6. “An approach to the Surgical Management of Velopharyngeal Incompetence” by Arun Gosain MD