Detailed Program

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Opening of the Congress

Pavel Calda (Czech Republic)

Short Presidential invitation

Marie Tolarová (USA)

Introduction of ICPF – History

Nagato Natsume (Japan)

Kenneth Salyer Global Award

Marie Tolarová (USA)

The Prague Cleft Prevention Declaration

Nagato Natsume (Japan), Marie Tolarová (USA), S. M. Balaji (India), Miroslav Tolar (USA)

Remembering Professor Byung-II Min Memorial video

Keynote lecture

Global Aspects of Orofacial Clefts
Peter Mossey (UK)

Presidential lecture

From Detection to Understanding: AI-Enabled Ultrasound Redefines Prenatal Diagnosis of Orofacial Clefts
Pavel Calda (Czech Republic) and Martin Hynek (Czech Republic)

Meeting with Cleft Patients: The Life Journey

Primary lip surgery 1

Chairs: David Chong & Eva Leamerová

13:30–13:45
Primary Rhinoplasty in Unilateral Cleft Lip: A Structured Approach to Surgical Decision-Making
David Chong (Australia)

13:45–14:00
PLANA – Presurgical Lip, Alveolus, and Nose Approximation (online)
Daniela Tanikawa (Brazil)

14:00–14:15
Craniofacial clefts affecting the lip and nose
Anil Madaree (South Africa)

14:15–14:23
Outcomes across unilateral cleft lip repair techniques: a 25-year global analysis of 70,120 patients
Lucas Perez Rivera (USA)

14:23–14:31
Evolution Of Primary Cleft Lip Repair Techniques In Uzbekistan Over 20 Years
Murod Jafarov (Uzbekistan)

14:31–14:39
Unilateral Cleft Lip An Palate: long term evaluation
Filippo Corso (Italy)

14:39–14:47
Forty Years of Surgical Management in Cleft Lip and Palate: From Standard Timing to Early Cleft Lip Repair – What Has Changed?
Jitka Vokurková (Czech Republic)

14:47–14:55
Neonatal cleft lip surgery – twenty years of experience
Michal Jurovčík (Czech Republic)

14:55–15:03
How to achieve functional and aesthetic result in cleft patients, a 25-years experience with nasal muscles reconstruction
Roman Bánský (Slovakia)

15:03–15:11
Comparison of Nasal Symmetry and Alar Morphometry in Unilateral Cleft Lip Repair: Fisher Anatomic Subunit vs. Mohler Technique
Chi-Wei Huang (Taiwan)

Discussion

Orthodontics 1

Chairs: Mihee Hong & Wanda Urbanová

13:30–13:45
Clinical Factors Influencing Orthodontic Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate
Mihee Hong (South Korea)

13:45–14:00
Evaluation of orthodontic – surgical treatment of pseudoprogenia in growing patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate
Petra Poláčková (Czech Republic)

14:00–14:15
Disentangling Congenital vs. Iatrogenic Growth Disturbance in CLP
Piotr Fudalej (Poland)

14:15–14:23
Pre-Surgical Orthodontics for Cleft Patients Receiving Secondary Alveolar bone Graft in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Yihsuan Chen (Taiwan)

14:23–14:31
Clinical Effectiveness of a Removable Expansion Appliance in the Pre-surgical Management of Unilateral Cleft Lip and Alveolar Deformities
Laylo Pirmukhamedova (Uzbekistan)

14:31–14:39
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
Chintamani Kale (India)

14:39–14:47
Assessing the biology behind orthopedic midfacial advancement: a cone-beam CT-based classification of circummaxillary sutures development
Federica Corradi (Italy)

14:47–14:55
CBCT-Based Comparison of Temporomandibular Joint Morphology in Cleft Lip and Palate and Non-Cleft Individuals
Elcin Esenlik (Türkiye)

14:55–15:03
A personalized novel approach with Bone Anchored Maxillomandibular Orthopedics, BAMO, to control Class III skeletal malocclusions in Cleft growing patients
Hector Villegas (Colombia)

15:03–15:11
Canine substitution in the orthodontic management of individuals with cleft lip and palate
Snehlata Oberoi (USA)

Discussion

Speech and hearing 1

Chairs: Miroslava Hrbková & Linda Vallino-Napoli 

13:30–13:50
Smile Train Initiatives to Improve the Speech of Children with Clefts in LMICs
Melissa Zattoni Antoneli (Brazil)

13:50–14:05
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
Miroslava Hrbková (Czech Republic)

14:05–14:13
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
Harpreet Singh (India)

14:13–14:21
VentiMask: The Effect of Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract Exercises With a Ventilation Mask in Adults With Inconsistent Velopharyngeal Dysfunction Due to Cleft Palate
Cassandra Alighieri (Belgium)

14:21–14.29
The Management of Infants with Cleft Lip and/or Palate in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Caregiver Perspectives
Saira B. S. Karrim (South Africa)

14:29–14:37
Parent questionnaire – an assessment tool of early phonological parameters in children with clefts
Zuzana Oravkinova (Slovakia)

14:37–14:45
Speech Function in Vietnamese Patients After Palatoplasty Receiving Speech and Language Therapy
Cham Nguyen (Vietnam)

14:45–14:53
Identification of speech hypernasality by naïve listeners and perceived risk of social prejudice
Maria-Ines Pegoraro-Krook (Brazil)

14:53–15:01
Age-related differences in naïve listeners' perception of hypernasality in speech of individuals with cleft palate
Maria-Ines Pegoraro-Krook (Brazil)

15:01–15:09
Acute Otitis Media in Children with Cleft Palate +/- Lip: A Narrative Synthesis of the Literature
Kurchi Mitra (UK)

Discussion

Prenatal diagnostics

Chairs: Pavel Calda & Michaela Richtrová

13:30–14:00
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)
Waldo Sepulveda (Chile)

Discussion

14:00–14:08
Prenatal Diagnosis of Orofacial Clefts: Accuracy and Parental Decision-Making in the Czech Republic
Klára Novotná (Czech Republic)

Discussion

Anesthesia. Airway

14:15–14:23
Suprazygomatic maxillary nerve block in pediatric cleft surgery: does ultrasound guidance improve local anesthetic distribution?
Nina Suleiman (Norway)

14:23–14:31
Regional anesthesia and a dedicated cleft anesthesiology team in children with orofacial clefts
Michaela Richterová (Czech Republic)

14:31–14:39
Posterior Airway Depth as a Practical Marker of Airway Change Following Primary Cleft Palate Repair
Richard Michael (USA)

14:39–14:47
Immediate Intraoperative Upper Airway Remodeling Following Primary Cleft Palate Repair
Richard Michael (USA)

14:47–14:55
Day Surgery Management and Enhanced Recovery for Primary Palatoplasty: Safety, Efficacy and Health Economics in a Large Cohort from Shanghai
Ming Cai (China)

14:55–15:03
Safe anesthesia for cleft care: evaluating training pathways and patient impact in low- and middle-income countries
Lily Anderson (USA)

Discussion

Smile Train – Advanced Speech Surgery Course

Craniofacial syndromes 1

Chairs: Ron Hathaway & Murod Jafarov

16:00–16:15
Mastering Midface Osteotomies: Lessons in Lefort III, Monobloc & Orbital Translocation Surgery
David Staffenberg (USA)

16:15–16.23
Peri-orbital and Jaw Surgery in Patients with Treacher Collins Syndrome
Pang-Yun Chou (Taiwan)

16:23–16:31
Obstructive sleep apnea in Treacher Collins Syndrome: prevalence and associated factors in children and adults
Ivy Trindaded-Suedam (Brazil)

16:31–16:39
Position-Related Cranial Deformities Therapy: A Structured Analysis of Caregiver Satisfaction
Michala Ivanic Sefcikova (Austria)

16:39–16:47
Clinical Evaluation of Combined Anterior Maxillary and Le Fort I internal Distraction Osteogenesis for Severe Cleft-Related Maxillary Hypoplasia
Ming Cai (China)

16:47–17:02
The Pediatric Fronto-Orbital Advancement
S.M. Balaji (India)

Discussion

Craniofacial syndromes 2

Chairs: S. M. Balaji & Petra Poláčková

17:15–17:30
Surgical–Orthodontic Treatment in Patients with Craniosynostoses
Ron Hathaway (USA)

17:30–17:38
Comprehensive treatment in craniofacial synostosis: stability after orthognathic surgery
Gaetano Lapiana (Italy)

17:38–17:46
Paradoxical Hemifacial Microsomia: A Novel Subclassification of Pruzansky Type I and Case Series Highlighting Unique Clinical and Radiographic Features
Lamia Binhuwaishel (Saudi Arabia)

17:46–17:54
Preliminary results of genomic investigation in individuals with otomandibular defects recorded in the Brazilian Database on Craniofacial Anomalies (BDCA)
Vera Gil-da-Silva-Lopes (Brazil)

Discussion

Genetics. Epidemiology. Prevention

Chairs: Nagato Natsume & Miroslav Tolar

16:00–16:20
History of cleft prevention – past and current
Marie Tolarová (USA)

16:20–16:28
The New Zealand case-control study: environmental risk factors for orofacial cleft
John Thompson (New Zealand)

16:28–16:36
Distribution of candidate genes in the New Zealand orofacial cleft case-control study
John Thompson (New Zealand)

16:36–16:44
Comparative Analysis of Risk Factors for Cleft Lip and Palate Between Urban and Rural Communities in Eastern Indonesia
Husni Mubarak (Indonesia)

16:44–16:59
Many ways folic acid can prevent nonsyndromic cleft lip and cleft palate
Miroslav Tolar (USA)

16:59–17:07
Pestices and prevalence of Cleft Lip and Palate in Colombia
Hector Villegas (Colombia)

17:07–17:15
Orofacial cleft incidence and perinatal characteristics in Slovenia: a 50-year nationwide study (1974–2023)
Nikola Reba (Slovenia)

17:15–17:23
Teratology counselling in the investigation of etiology of orofacial clefts, preliminary results from Cleft Centre Bratislava
Lajos Gergely (Slovakia)

17:23–17:31
Beyond the Sequence: DNA Methylation as a Modifier of Orofacial Clefting
Aline Petrin (USA)

17:31–17:39
Multi-Omic analyses of a twin pair with mirror image cleft lip identifies pathogenic variant in FGF20 modified by differential methylation upstream of ZFP57
Aline Petrin (USA)

17:39–17:47
Genetic Diversity and Gene-Sex Interactions in Non-Syndromic Orofacial Cleft Subtypes
Le Kha Anh (Japan)

17:47–17:55
Burden-capacity mismatch and priority-country framework: cross-sectional ecological analysis of 50 countries
Tselmuun Chinzorig (Japan)

17:55-18:03
Genomic investigation in 291 participants with Syndromic Oral Cleft recorded on the Brazilian Database on Craniofacial Anomalies (BDCA)
Vera Lúcia Gil-da-Silva-Lopes (Brazil)

Discussion

Multidisciplinary treatment concepts

Chairs: Andrzej Brudnicki & Felicity Mehendale

16:00–16:15
Global Orofacial Cleft Research Priorities for the next 10 years
Felicity Mehendale (UK)

16:15–16:23
Implementation of the CLEFT-Q in Clinical Practice at Prague Cleft Center: Preliminary Results
Kateřina Kiss (Czech Republic)

16:23–16:31
Functional and psychosocial outcomes in young children with orofacial clefts: an item-level analysis of the CleftChild-8
Sofia Bachini (the Netherlands)

16:31–16:39
Long-term growth assessment of young adults born with unilateral cleft lip and palate treated at the Riga Cleft Lip and Palate Centre
Inta Zepa (Latvia)

16:39–16:47
Preoperative multidisciplinary management in patients with cleft palate associated with syndromes and complex anomalies
Giulia Cremona (Italy)

16:47–16:55
Intra and postsurgical multidisciplinary management in patients with cleft palate associated with complex anomalies or syndromes
Giulia Rossetti (Italy)

16:55–17:03
Evaluation of the new PSQ-Cleft Test as a screening tool for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in patients with cleft lip and palate
Sérgio Trindade (Brazil)

17:03–17:11
Integrated 3D stereophotogrammetric approach for objective assessment of facial asymmetry in cleft lip and palate patients
Federica Maggiulli (France)

17:11–17:19
Delivery of written oral hygiene instructions and diet advice to cleft patients in the dental setting: A service improvement
Darshan Tank (UK)

Discussion