team approach concept in management of oro-facial clefts a survey of nigerian practitioners在管理团队的方法概念oro-facial结晶的调查尼日利亚从业者.pdf

Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Research Open Access Team approach concept in management of oro-facial clefts: a survey of Nigerian practitioners 1 1,2 Victor I Akinmoladun and Obitade S Obimakinde* Address: 1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University College Hospital, P.M.B 5013, Ibadan, Nigeria and 2Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria Email: Victor I Akinmoladun - vickiebrown2003@; Obitade S Obimakinde* - tasky111@ * Corresponding author Published: 10 May 2009 Received: 16 October 2007 Accepted: 10 May 2009 Head Face Medicine 2009, 5:11 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-5-11 This article is available from: /content/5/1/11 © 2009 Akinmoladun and Obimakinde; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Cleft palate craniofacial teams have evolved across the globe in the last 20 years in compliance with the interdisciplinary concept of management of oro-facial clefts. An interdisciplinary care allows a coordinated treatment protocol for the patient. The objective of this study was to evaluate oro-facial cleft care in Nigeria with particular emphasis on the complianc