Nasal symmetry after different techniques of primary lip repair for unilateral complete cleft lip with or without cleft of the alveolus and palate: A systematic review.

Bansal, Adity; Reddy, Srinivas Gosla; Chug, Ashi; Markus, Anthony F; Kuijpers-Jagtman, Anne Marie (2022). Nasal symmetry after different techniques of primary lip repair for unilateral complete cleft lip with or without cleft of the alveolus and palate: A systematic review. Journal of cranio-maxillo-facial surgery, 50(12), pp. 894-909. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jcms.2022.12.006

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The aim of this systematic review was to establish the effect of different surgical repairs for the lip on nasal symmetry. PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Cochrane CENTRAL, and Ovid databases search was performed initially for only English-language articles, in patients with unilateral complete cleft lip with or without cleft alveolus and palate (UCCLAP) who were younger than 1 year of age and undergoing cleft lip repair, and are published from the earliest data available up to December 31, 2020. The primary outcome variable was nasal symmetry, with reported complications being secondary variables. A qualitative synthesis was provided. A total of 19,828 records were obtained, and 17 articles were selected for final review. Assessment of the risk of bias of the included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) (N-1) was done with the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 (RoB-2) tool, and the ROBINS-I tool was used for non-randomized studies (n = 14). Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) was applied to evaluate the quality of the body of evidence. The majority of the included studies compared the triangular repair with the rotation advancement (RA) techniques, and preferred RA or its modifications. In terms of the nasal symmetry, the Fisher repair proved to be superior to the RA technique. Neither RA nor straight line repair was superior to one another. The Delaire technique may be preferred over the modified RA. Also, satisfactory outcomes were observed with simultaneous lip-nose repair. This systematic review examined a plethora of techniques, and the heterogeneity between studies was very high regarding type of surgery, method of nasal symmetry assessment, and length of follow-up, thus producing low-quality evidence; therefore, results should be interpreted with caution. Future research requires RCTs with larger sample sizes and appropriate length of follow-up, and surgeries preferably performed by a single experienced surgeon.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Review Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Orthodontics

UniBE Contributor:

Kuijpers-Jagtman, Anne-Marie

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1878-4119

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

16 Jan 2023 12:19

Last Modified:

08 Feb 2023 00:15

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.jcms.2022.12.006

PubMed ID:

36635151

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Nasal deformity Rotation advancement technique Systematic review Triangular technique Unilateral complete cleft lip

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/177359

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/177359

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