A General guideline for when treatment should be provided for various stages and symptoms related to cleft lip and palate
After your child hits puberty and when the skeletal (bony) discrepancy between the upper and lower jaws are determined to be too large for the braces alone to solve this problem, the help of an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon will be needed to perform a surgical correction of the jaws.
Most patients with jaw discrepancies and incorrect jaw relationships can undergo a surgical procedure that enables the surgeon to properly align the jaws and teeth
