Cleft surgery requires an expert team performing ongoing treatment in order to achieve optimal outcomes. The senior author's (KES) experiences of more than 2 000 patients with cleft lip and palate treated by a surgical-orthodontic protocol were introduced. The paper here will concentrate on not only correcting the occlusion as others have described, but also on what one surgeon can do to achieve optimal aesthetic balance, harmony and beauty. The results of orthognathic surgery in respect to function, stability, cosmesis, and complications are also audited.
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Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011 China;
