The Sri Lanka cleft lip and palate project--the medical illustrator's contribution

Since 1984, a series of visits to the island of Sri Lanka by an assessment team, and a team of surgeons and anaesthetists, has amassed a huge dataset on unoperated cleft lip and palates and carried out surgery on over 600 patients. In addition, the training of local Sri Lankan professionals was undertaken. The two most recent trips in 1990 are described with reference to the photographic and audiovisual records collected.