4-year follow-up of presurgical nasoalveolar molding with 3D printing for a patient with unilateral cleft lip, alveolus, and palate

Abstract

This article presents a 4-year posttreatment follow up of a patient with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate. During infancy, before surgery, he was treated with a novel digital nasoalveolar molding appliance, which consisted of a series of 3-dimensionally printed molding plates and a nasal hook. Then, the patient underwent primary cheiloplasty and primary palatoplasty. Four years after nasoalveolar molding treatment, his nasolabial morphology was acceptable, and the alveolar arch remained continuous and symmetrical with no overlap or collapse.