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2025-12-24 @ 12:51 PM
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2025-12-30 @ 12:06 AM
Study NCT ID:
NCT00779961
Status:
UNKNOWN
Last Update Posted:
2022-03-24
First Post:
2008-10-23
Is NOT Gene Therapy:
True
Has Adverse Events:
False
Brief Title:
An Investigation for the Optimal Timing of a Cleft Palate Repair
Sponsor:
The Hospital for Sick Children
Organization:
Study Overview
Official Title:
An Investigation for the Optimal Timing of a Cleft Palate Repair
Status:
UNKNOWN
Status Verified Date:
2022-03
Last Known Status:
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
None
Brief Summary:
The effect of timing of cleft palate repair on speech development, velopharyngeal functioning, and facial growth remains unknown. The objective of this study is to determine the effectiveness of early palatal repair versus The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) routine palatal repair in isolated cleft palate patients by comparing speech development, velopharyngeal functioning and facial growth outcomes. The null hypothesis is no difference in speech development, velopharyngeal functioning and facial growth between early palatal repair and SickKids routine palatal repair in isolated cleft palate patients.
Detailed Description:
The goals of palatoplasty are to provide an intact palate and to create a normally functioning velopharyngeal mechanism as early as possible without hazard to other aspects of health and development. Two major criteria by which the success of cleft palate surgery is determined are subsequent speech development and facial growth. Therefore, the debate about timing of cleft palate surgery is focused on the need for early palatoplasty for speech purposes versus later palatoplasty to ensure undisturbed facial growth. A compromise solution to this controversy was proposed by Schweckendiek; the soft palate is repaired at an early age leaving the hard palate cleft unrepaired until later in life. The premise is that primary veloplasty will result in a functioning velopharyngeal mechanism for early speech development, while the unrepaired hard palate will allow unrestricted maxillary growth. The speech outcomes of patients who have undergone delayed stage palate repair have been addressed in several studies and case series. However, there is little evidence to support the benefits of delayed stage repair with respect to facial growth and speech development. Results from published studies have shown the speech results to be relatively poor and fistula rates as unacceptably high. These results have lead a vast majority of North American surgeons to favour primary one-stage repair. Yet, the optimum timing of primary palate repair remains unknown. No randomized control trials or prospective cohort studies have been conducted to address this question.
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
False
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
None
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?: