Timing of Primary Surgery for Cleft Palate

Carrol Gamble¹, Christina Persson¹, Elisabeth Willadsen¹+58

• ¹From the University of Liverpool (C.G., R.C., E.C., L.P., P.R.W.) and Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust (S.M.), Liverpool, Royal Hospital for Sick Children (G.C., N.L.) and the University of Edinburgh (F.M.), Edinburgh, Northern and Yorkshire Regional Cleft Lip and Palate Service (S.C.) and Leeds General Infirmary (C.L.), Leeds, Cleft Care Scotland, Glasgow (L.C.), Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol (L.A.), the University of Manchester (J.C.-S., A.E.-A., G.S., K.M., T.W., W.S.) and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (M.B., K.P.), Manchester, Birmingham Children's Hospital (B.F.) and Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust (I.U.), Birmingham, Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury (G.P.), Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne (L.R., S.E.), and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford (L.S.) - all in the United Kingdom; the University of Gothenburg (C.P.) and Sahlgrenska University Hospital (C.H.), Gothenburg, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala (M.A., E.L.), Linköping University Hospital, Linköping (P.B., A.-S.B.T.), Umeå University (K.B.) and Norrlands University Hospital (J.E.W.), Umeå, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö (K.K., M.S.), Karolinska Institutet, Solna (A.L., J.N.), and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm (L.R.W.) - all in Sweden; the University of Copenhagen (E.W., L.D.J.) and Copenhagen Cleft Palate Center (H.S.A., L.D.J.), Copenhagen, and the Cleft Palate Center, Aarhus (B.K.E., L.L., J.B.N.) - all in Denmark; the University of São Paulo, Bauru, Brazil (M.Z.A., A.P.F., C.G.A.B.G., H.C.M., S.H.A.P.-P., I.E.K.T., R.P.Y.); and Statped (R.A., A.K.H., M.B.K., J.L.) and Statped Sørøst (M.M.), Oslo, and Statped Vest, Bergen (N.-H.P., J.T.) - all in Norway.