Detailed Program
30 September 2026
(Wednesday) 1 October 2026
(Thursday) 2 October 2026
(Friday) 3 October 2026
(Saturday)
07:30 |
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07:30 |
Registration opens |
08:30–09:00 – room 1 |
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08:30–09:00 – room 1 |
Opening of the CongressPavel Calda (Czech Republic) Short Presidential invitationMarie Tolarová (USA) |
09:00–09:15 – room 1 |
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09:00–09:15 – room 1 |
Introduction of ICPF – History |
09:15–10:00 – room 1 |
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09:15–10:00 – room 1 |
Kenneth Salyer Global Award |
10:00–10:30 – room 1 |
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10:00–10:30 – room 1 |
The Prague Cleft Prevention Declaration |
10:30–11:00 |
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10:30–11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:00–11:15 – room 1 |
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11:00–11:15 – room 1 |
Remembering Professor Byung-II Min Memorial video |
11:15–12:00 – room 1 |
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11:15–12:00 – room 1 |
Keynote lectureGlobal Aspects of Orofacial Clefts |
12:00–12:30 – room 1 |
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12:00–12:30 – room 1 |
Presidential lectureFrom Detection to Understanding: AI-Enabled Ultrasound Redefines Prenatal Diagnosis of Orofacial Clefts |
12:30–13:30 |
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12:30–13:30 |
Lunch Break
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13:30–15:30 – room 1 |
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13:30–15:30 – room 1 |
Primary lip surgery 1Chairs: David Chong & Eva Leamerová Primary Rhinoplasty in Unilateral Cleft Lip: A Structured Approach to Surgical Decision-Making PLANA – Presurgical Lip, Alveolus, and Nose Approximation (online) Craniofacial clefts affecting the lip and nose Outcomes across unilateral cleft lip repair techniques: a 25-year global analysis of 70,120 patients Evolution Of Primary Cleft Lip Repair Techniques In Uzbekistan Over 20 Years Unilateral Cleft Lip An Palate: long term evaluation Forty Years of Surgical Management in Cleft Lip and Palate: From Standard Timing to Early Cleft Lip Repair – What Has Changed? Neonatal cleft lip surgery – twenty years of experience How to achieve functional and aesthetic result in cleft patients, a 25-years experience with nasal muscles reconstruction Comparison of Nasal Symmetry and Alar Morphometry in Unilateral Cleft Lip Repair: Fisher Anatomic Subunit vs. Mohler Technique |
13:30–15:30 – room 2 |
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13:30–15:30 – room 2 |
Orthodontics 1Chairs: Mihee Hong & Wanda Urbanová Clinical Factors Influencing Orthodontic Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate Evaluation of orthodontic – surgical treatment of pseudoprogenia in growing patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate Disentangling Congenital vs. Iatrogenic Growth Disturbance in CLP Pre-Surgical Orthodontics for Cleft Patients Receiving Secondary Alveolar bone Graft in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Clinical Effectiveness of a Removable Expansion Appliance in the Pre-surgical Management of Unilateral Cleft Lip and Alveolar Deformities Orthodontic management of Severely Protruded Premaxillary segment of Bilateral Cleft Lip and Palate(BCLP) patients. A study of 12 treated cases with 15 years follow up records Assessing the biology behind orthopedic midfacial advancement: a cone-beam CT-based classification of circummaxillary sutures development CBCT-Based Comparison of Temporomandibular Joint Morphology in Cleft Lip and Palate and Non-Cleft Individuals A personalized novel approach with Bone Anchored Maxillomandibular Orthopedics, BAMO, to control Class III skeletal malocclusions in Cleft growing patients |
13:30–15:30 – room 3 |
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13:30–15:30 – room 3 |
Speech and hearing 1Chairs: Miroslava Hrbková & Linda Vallino-Napoli Smile Train Initiatives to Improve the Speech of Children with Clefts in LMICs Cleft Palate Defects and Neurodevelopmental Disorders – Summary Data from an Eight-year Follow-up of Paediatric Patients at the Phoniatric Clinic of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, and the General University Hospital in Prague Evaluation of the effects of rapid maxillary expansion on hearing and voice function in non-cleft lip palate and bilateral cleft lip palate patients with transverse maxillary deficiency: A multicentric randomized controlled trial VentiMask: The Effect of Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract Exercises With a Ventilation Mask in Adults With Inconsistent Velopharyngeal Dysfunction Due to Cleft Palate The Management of Infants with Cleft Lip and/or Palate in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Caregiver Perspectives Parent questionnaire – an assessment tool of early phonological parameters in children with clefts Speech Function in Vietnamese Patients After Palatoplasty Receiving Speech and Language Therapy Identification of speech hypernasality by naïve listeners and perceived risk of social prejudice Age-related differences in naïve listeners' perception of hypernasality in speech of individuals with cleft palate |
13:30–15:30 – room 4 |
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13:30–15:30 – room 4 |
Prenatal diagnosticsChairs: Pavel Calda & Michaela Richtrová The main 2D and 3D ultrasound techniques for the diagnosis and evaluation of fetal orofacial clefts will be presented, together with illustrative images from clinical cases (online) Discussion Prenatal Diagnosis of Orofacial Clefts: Accuracy and Parental Decision-Making in the Czech Republic |
Anesthesia. AirwaySuprazygomatic maxillary nerve block in pediatric cleft surgery: does ultrasound guidance improve local anesthetic distribution? Regional anesthesia and a dedicated cleft anesthesiology team in children with orofacial clefts Posterior Airway Depth as a Practical Marker of Airway Change Following Primary Cleft Palate Repair Immediate Intraoperative Upper Airway Remodeling Following Primary Cleft Palate Repair Day Surgery Management and Enhanced Recovery for Primary Palatoplasty: Safety, Efficacy and Health Economics in a Large Cohort from Shanghai Safe anesthesia for cleft care: evaluating training pathways and patient impact in low- and middle-income countries |
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15:30–16:00 |
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15:30–16:00 |
Coffee Break |
15:45–18:30 – room 3 |
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15:45–18:30 – room 3 |
Smile Train – Advanced Speech Surgery Course |
16:00–18:15 – room 1 |
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16:00–18:15 – room 1 |
Craniofacial syndromes 1Chairs: Ron Hathaway & Murod Jafarov The Pediatric Fronto-Orbital Advancement TBA Peri-orbital and Jaw Surgery in Patients with Treacher Collins Syndrome Obstructive sleep apnea in Treacher Collins Syndrome: prevalence and associated factors in children and adults Position-Related Cranial Deformities Therapy: A Structured Analysis of Caregiver Satisfaction Clinical Evaluation of Combined Anterior Maxillary and Le Fort I internal Distraction Osteogenesis for Severe Cleft-Related Maxillary Hypoplasia |
Craniofacial syndromes 2Chairs: S. M. Balaji & Petra Poláčková Surgical- Orthodontic Treatment in Patients with Craniosynostoses Comprehensive treatment in craniofacial synostosis: stability after orthognathic surgery. Paradoxical Hemifacial Microsomia: A Novel Subclassification of Pruzansky Type I and Case Series Highlighting Unique Clinical and Radiographic Features Preliminary results of genomic investigation in individuals with otomandibular defects recorded in the Brazilian Database on Craniofacial Anomalies (BDCA) |
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16:00–18:15 – room 2 |
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16:00–18:15 – room 2 |
Genetics. Epidemiology. PreventionChairs: Nagato Natsume & Miroslav Tolar History of cleft prevention – past and current The New Zealand case-control study: environmental risk factors for orofacial cleft Distribution of candidate genes in the New Zealand orofacial cleft case-control study Comparative Analysis of Risk Factors for Cleft Lip and Palate Between Urban and Rural Communities in IndonesiaComparative Analysis of Risk Factors for Cleft Lip and Palate Between Urban and Rural Communities in Indonesia Many ways folic acid can prevent nonsyndromic cleft lip and cleft palate Pestices and prevalence of Cleft Lip and Palate in Colombia Orofacial cleft incidence and perinatal characteristics in Slovenia: a 50-year nationwide study (1974–2023) Teratology counselling in the investigation of etiology of orofacial clefts, preliminary results from Cleft Centre Bratislava Beyond the Sequence: DNA Methylation as a Modifier of Orofacial Clefting Multi-Omic analyses of a twin pair with mirror image cleft lip identifies pathogenic variant in FGF20 modified by differential methylation upstream of ZFP57 Genetic Diversity and Gene-Sex Interactions in Non-Syndromic Orofacial Cleft Subtypes in Vietnam Prevalence and Clinical Pathern of Cleft Lip and Palate Patients Presenting in a Secondary Health care Facility in South South Nigeria Burden-capacity mismatch and priority-country framework: cross-sectional ecological analysis of 50 countries Genomic investigation in 291 participants with Syndromic Oral Cleft recorded on the Brazilian Database on Craniofacial Anomalies (BDCA) |
16:00–18:00 – room 4 |
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16:00–18:00 – room 4 |
Multidisciplinary treatment conceptsChairs: Andrzej Brudnicki & TBA Global Orofacial Cleft Research Priorities for the next 10 years Implementation of the CLEFT-Q in Clinical Practice at Prague Cleft Center: Preliminary Results Functional and psychosocial outcomes in young children with orofacial clefts: an item-level analysis of the CleftChild-8 Long-term growth assessment of young adults born with unilateral cleft lip and palate treated at the Riga Cleft Lip and Palate Centre Preoperative multidisciplinary management in patients with cleft palate associated with syndromes and complex anomalies Intra and postsurgical multidisciplinary management in patients with cleft palate associated with complex anomalies or syndromes Evaluation of the new PSQ-Cleft Test as a screening tool for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in patients with cleft lip and palate Integrated 3D stereophotogrammetric approach for objective assessment of facial asymmetry in cleft lip and palate patients Delivery of written oral hygiene instructions and diet advice to cleft patients in the dental setting: A service improvement |
Last update on 31 August 2026.
The program might be subject to necessary changes.
