The use of fixed orthodontic appliances for combined rehabilitation of children with unilateral cleft lip, alveolar process, and palate

Promotion of the children's health is the main challenge facing this country in the near and distant future because all prospects for its further social and economic, scientific and cultural developments as well as high living standards of the population depend on the quality of the children's health. The importance of this problem is emphasized by the fact that all the experience accumulated by the Russian public health services and all the achievements of world's science indicate that disregard of the importance of early rehabilitation leaves no hope for the efficacious corrective and remedial treatment of children and adolescents presenting with cleft lip, alveolar process, and palate.

cleft lip and palate, early orthodontic treatment