INTRODUCTION: After evaluating the technique chosen for unilateral cleft lip surgery, we notice a negative outcome of the nose aspect, what lead us to introduce and evaluate a new method of nasal molding with a silicone strut. METHODS: There were evaluate 20 patients operated by the same technique, 10 patients with immediate silicone strut molding and 10 patients without nasal molding. The results were analyzed with pre-operatory pictures, post operative pictures and a movie of the child in the present date by three expertise cleft lip surgeon, whose did not know which use or not the silicone molding. RESULTS: The age of the patients after the surgery range from 1 to 9 years, which only 60% were operated on the pre set age (3 months), the average time using the Silicone molding strut were 4 months. After statistics analysis, it demonstrated that there was not a better outcome in the nose aspect on patients who's used the nasal molding. CONCLUSIONS: After statistics analysis, the group of patients underwent the Göteborg Technique, using immediate silicone strut molding, shown no better results than the group without nasal molding.
Cleft lip; Lip; Nose; Nose
