[Surgical treatment of congenital bilateral cleft lip]

Operations were performed on 23 patients with bilateral cleft lips by the method of Mirault--Limberg--Kardozo. Five patients had bilateral symmetrical total cleft lips, eight patients had bilateral nonsymmetrical total cleft lips, ten patients had bilateral incomplete cleft lips. One-stage operations were used in 17 patients, two-stage operations--in six patients. The method consists in the angle-shaped refreshing and uniting the margins of the cleft which provides the possibility to restore the correct form of the Cupid arch. The method is most expedient in children with bilateral non-symmetrical cleft lips with the well-developed median portion. Long-term results were studied in 19 children. Good and excellent results were noted in 12 patients, satisfactory--in 7 patients.