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Cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) affect approximately 1/700 live births. Optimal timing for repair of cleft lip has yet to be objectively validated.

Earlier repair takes advantage of a high degree of plasticity within the nasal cartilage and maxilla. We present patients enrolled in an early cleft lip repair (ECLR) protocol facilitating effective repair of the cleft lip and nostril.

ASA class I/II patients with unilateral cleft lip and/or palate undergoing repair < 3 months of age were enrolled over 5 years.

Perioperative data, surgical and anesthetic complications, preoperative and postoperative nostril breadth (NB), nostril width (NW), nasal angle (NA), lip length (LL), frontal nasal breadth (FNB), and commissure length (CL) measured as ratios between cleft and non-cleft sides were abstracted.

ECLR and Nasoalveolar molding (NAM) patients were matched for cleft lip severity using the cleft width ratios (CWR) and compared.