BCP “Bilateral Cleft Palate” Appliance
Dr. Mhd Azhar Ibrahim Kharsa
In this article, the author is trying to describe an approach for treating the “bilateral cleft palate”
newborn patients, by a simple removable appliance, BCP “Bilateral Cleft Palate” Appliance.
The appliance is a removable acrylic plane, with Y shaped three sectors, an expander “works as an
intraoral retractor to retract the prognathism” and a “filament” or string for appliance withdrawal and
removal when required.
This appliance is indicated for newborn bilateral cleft palate patients, especially during the first days of
extra uterus life when infant patient suffers difficulties in nursing and feeding because of the cleft palate
effects, nasopalatine fistula, and when requirements are existed to retract the anteriorly protruded
prognathism, as well.
The action of this appliance is orthopedic as it works to retract the prognathism by activation of the
“opened central expander” that works herein as in fact a “retractor and contractor”.
