Community Dental Health

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Cover Date:
March 2010
Print ISSN:
0265 539X
Vol:
27
Issue:
1

Editorial - Improving services for cleft lip and palate. A work in progress

An International Challenge
Services and treatment protocols for the management of children with cleft lip and palate can be remarkably different within and between countries. In Europe, there is wide variation from poorly coordinated disparate services, as in Portugal or Greece, to highly centralised specialised teams as in Scandinavia. Clinical uncertainty is evident from a striking diversity of practices. In one survey, 201 European teams carrying out primary surgical repair for unilateral clefts, employed 194 different protocols, reflecting the paucity of published randomised trials in the field (Shaw et al, 2001). A series of WHO consensus conferences between 2000 and 2005 confirmed that service organisation and treatment uncertainty are widespread international problems, while lack of resources puts the most basic surgical treatment beyond the reach of thousands of children in the developing world (WHO, 2002).

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B. Shaw

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  1. Acknowledgement of Referees
  2. 1
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  1. Editorial - Improving services for cleft lip and palate. A work in progress
  2. 2
  3. 3

  1. Preventive care and recall intervals. Targeting of services in child dental care in Norway
  2. 5
  3. 11

  1. National survey of oral health status of children and adults in Turkey
  2. 12
  3. 17

  1. The influence of economic incentives on treatment patterns in a third-party funded dental service
  2. 18
  3. 22

  1. Barriers to restorative care as perceived by dental practitioners in Tanzania
  2. 23
  3. 28

  1. Social inequality in perceived oral health among Sri Lankan adolescents
  2. 29
  3. 34

  1. Complications following oral piercing. A study among 201 young adults in Strasbourg, France.
  2. 35
  3. 40

  1. Is tooth wear in the primary dentition predictive of tooth wear in the permanent dentition? Report from a longitudinal study.
  2. 41
  3. 45

  1. Are paediatric medicines risk factors for dental caries and dental erosion?
  2. 46
  3. 51

  1. A study on neonatal factors and eruption time of primary teeth
  2. 52
  3. 56

  1. Prevalence of aggressive periodontitis in 15-18 year old schoolchildren in Tehran, Iran
  2. 57
  3. 59

  1. Chewing stick use among African immigrants in West Philadelphia: implications for oral health providers
  2. 60
  3. 64

  1. Caries prevalence and intra-oral pattern among young children in Ajman.
  2. 109
  3. 113