Abstract:

The diagnosis and therapy of otitis media with effusion associated cleft palate are important parts of the sequence therapy of cleft lip and palate. The ongoing research about it in Department of Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery in West China College of Stomatology of Sichuan University is one of the earliest domestically researches, so there must be some learnable experiences from it. The popularity and underlying harm are presented in this paper. Myringotomy and ventilation tube insertion is a safe and effective way to relief middle ear dysfunction and audition loss, it should be considered to be a basic principle of therapy, when and how to complete this surgery skillfully have also been discussed in this paper.

Key words: cleftpalate, middleearfunction, hearing, myringotomyandventilationtubeinsertion