 In the past 14 years, the program's smile surgery teeth hand Central Institute (now the Hospital Dental hand function) in Ho Chi Minh City has helped 739 children with Cleft lip and palate, cleft jaw frogs in the province Ba Ria - Vung Tau surgery, integrate into the community. Dr. Lam Hoai Phuong, Director of Dental Hospital function Side Central discussed with reporters Ba Ria - Vung Tau around this problem.
* She can tell, cause the status of children with Cleft lip and palate deformities, cleft jaw frog? Birth defects have not prevented?
- According to statistics, the proportion of children with birth defects Cleft lip and palate, cleft jaw frog about 2.1 parts per thousand. This is considered relatively high rate of birth defects and focused more in Asia. However, at present, science has not found the main reasons causing this situation. Cleft lip and palate deformities, cleft jaw frogs may be due to genetic factors, this factor is often stressed than if the family of a certain generation have lost the lips, cleft jaw, the frog can to these children infected at birth deformities. In addition, during pregnancy, mothers with flu can also be a cause, or by smoking, drinking ... Issues hormone can also affect the fetus and lead to deformities were drop lip, cleft jaw frog.
The main reason for the above, so preventive measures are very difficult to determine. We can only recommend for patients, family and society should be interested in her birth mother prepare full knowledge. Important to prevent the flu, not the pill for 3 months and early pregnancy, avoid the environment with chemicals, contaminated radioactive or other toxic elements.
* When these infected defects, in addition to aesthetic problems, also affect the health of children and living how she distinguished guests?
- Generally, when the baby born with Cleft lip and palate, cleft jaw frog farming difficult. The grandson susceptible inflammation of upper respiratory tract, it is difficult to eat so vulnerable to malnutrition, reduced resistance. Children with deformities should be monitored from birth until age 18, is the time when the grandchildren have developed comprehensive and not just stop at the time of the surgery.
For children with cleft frog function after surgery should be interested in the pronunciation, oral, only if that is not affected will be considered complete and can integrate well with the community.
* For parents with children with Cleft lip and palate deformities, cleft jaw frogs, surgery for children at the time that is appropriate?
- Cleft lip and palate, cleft jaw frog is a mild form of birth defects, the grandchildren still develop normal intelligence. Thus, when the child was born normal, healthy but deformities, the parents do not worry, please contact directly with the hospital where children were born to be guided. Children from 6 months old, weighing 6 kg was able to conduct surgery. Even the case may be sooner than surgery, from just 3 months old. Babies were separate openings functions to 12-month-old frogs can surgery. Parents should not give children too late to avoid surgical trauma and emotional health of children vulnerable to infection due to upper respiratory tract, affecting the development of other functions related Road to the nose, throat, such as pronunciation, children will continue to be tracked until age 18.
14 years, hospitals Dental - Ham - Surface Central sticking with
Ba Ria - Vung Tau in the smile surgery program for children with disabilities.
* Ba Ria - Vung Tau has been recognized end point young Cleft lip and palate surgery, cleft jaw frogs, while as she said this is the birth defects. So the program has also continued?
- Speaking at the end just to mention marking a milestone in 10 years (1997-2007) Hospital molars hand coordination with the Central Ba Ria - Vung Tau surgical procedure, returning the smile peace common for children was born with these defects. That means the program has not ended, but will continue to step into starting a new milestone, but other than level, in collaboration with a large, many more dimensions to children with Cleft lip and palate deformities, cleft frog functions congenital surgery soon, no waiting.
During the 14-year implementation program "smile surgery" in Ba Ria - Vung Tau, in addition to helping poor people for free surgery for children, we also transferred technology, help physicians specialist that - function - aspects of the capacity building specialist, currently the provincial hospitals have been able to solve the mild cases, simple. Hopefully in the near future to this, children with Cleft lip and palate, cleft of the frog function of Ba Ria - Vung Tau will be the doctors at the provincial surgeons.
Source: Source Ba Ria - Vung Tau |
