[Cleft palate surgery from its beginnings until today]

The Authors have studied the evolution of the cleft palate's surgery, illness known from ancient times, but without any therapeutic solution for a long time. After the discovery of America, with the presence of a new syphilitic infection, cleft palate was generally considered as a consequence of syphilis, and undoubtedly this took away much interest in resolving any surgical problem. Only in 1766 Le Monnier did an operation of staphylorrhaphy. In the first half of 19th century many different surgeons, of different nations, presented many technics for the plasty of the cleft palate. But, as a result of the operation, there were new problems concerning the speech. Schönborn, just to improve the speech, did a palatopharyngoplasty in 1875, operation that was accepted only by Rosenthal, in 1924. After having been considered the technical skills for this surgery, there are presents the nowaday views for the correction of cleft palate.