YEMEN SMILE
    A small charity dedicated to providing cleft palate surgery to children in Yemen
   
       

Treatment Available

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following treatments are available at Yemen Smile surgeries.  They are sponsored by Smile Train and the Yemen Smile Trust.
 

Cleft lip and nose

  • Unilateral cleft lip
  • Bilateral cleft lip
  • Revision of previous maladjusted surgery
  • Revision of poor scars
  • Premaxilla reduction with K wire and lip adhesion stage one
  • Oro nasal fistula repair
  • Alar cartilage correction,Tajema procedure etc
  • Cleft rhinoplasty for the tip .septum, bone
  • Ceft nose
  • Craniofacial cleft
  • Upper lip posterior auricular fascia filler in cleft lip patients
  • Abbe flap for the short post op lip
  • Philtrum and cupid bow reconstruction
  • Reduction cheiloplasty of the thick post op cleft lip
  • Lip notch revision post op
  • Nasal osteotomy and grafts of the nose
  • Lateral cleft lip Tessier 3
  • Mucosal reduction for post op cleft lip with double lip or mucosal prolapse

 

Cleft palate

  • Stage One soft palate mucosal adhesion
  • One stage palatoplasty in the narrower clefts
  • Stage one Vomer periosteal flap
  • Soft palate three layer cleft repair using  saline dissection
  • Soft palate repair by Furlows method
  • Palate re-repair by muscle retro positioning techniques
  • Palate fistula repair by flaps,cartilage,tongue flap or buccinator muscle mucosal flap
  • Superiorly based pharyngeal flap/muscle retropositioning
  • Primary closure of adult palate by myomucosal flaps
  • Flap detachment and repair of donor site
  • FAMM flap for palate fistula

 

 

 


 

In partnership with Smile Train USA