What is the Effectiveness of Premaxilla Surgical Repositioning and its Stabilization Methods in Mixed Dentition Patients With Bilateral Cleft Lip and Palate?

OBJECTIVE

Verify the effectiveness of surgical repositioning of the premaxilla and its stabilization methods in patients with bilateral cleft lip and palate during mixed dentition.

DESIGN

Systematic review.

MATERIAL AND

METHODS

The search was conducted in 7 databases (eg, Medline via PubMed; Scopus; Central Cochrane; LILACS; Embase, Web of Science; and Sigle via OpenGrey until August 2021), using the descriptors "premaxilla", "cleft Palate", and "bone transplantation".

INCLUSION CRITERIA: Clinical trials and observational studies that have patients with bilateral cleft who had a need for superior/posterior repositioning of the premaxilla on mixed dentition; Studies in any language was evaluted whitout time restriction of publication.

RESULTS

From 5572 records, 6 studies were included in the review with a total sample of 212 patients. Regarding the type of stabilization used in the premaxilla, the hybrid method (rigid and complementary semi-rigid stabilization) predominated, being observed in 184 patients (86.8%). A total of 17 failures were identified related to the surgical repositioning of the premaxilla, corresponding to 8% of the total number of surgeries. A meta-analysis of prevalence was performed, only with the retrospective studies. It was observed that the effectiveness rate of premaxilla repositioning was 92%, with a CI between 0.04 and 0.13, with all included studies showing a similar failure rate (0.08-0.09). The included studies also showed great homogeneity in this analysis (I2 = 0%; P = .75).

CONCLUSION

Although there are several alternatives and techniques for repositioning and stabilizing the premaxilla, the statistical result did not differ between the different techniques.