Illustrative image (Photo: National Children’s Hospital) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) – The National Children’s Hospital cooperated with
experts from the (NCF) in Taiwan (China) to
provide free examinations and surgeries for children with complicated
maxillofacial deformities from December 4 to December 7.
During the programme, Vietnamese and Taiwanese doctors provided examinations to
60 children and 25 successful surgeries for complicated maxillofacial
deformities.
Common deformities include cleft palate surgery, lip and nose correction, arch
bone grafting, and large perforation after cleft palate surgery, especially
double jaw bone surgery for children with deformed faces and misaligned bites.
Doctor Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan, deputy head of the ,
National Children’s Hospital, said that about 1,200 children have undergone
surgery for maxillofacial deformities within the framework of the cooperation
programme between the hospital and NCF since 2018.
After cooperating with NCF, the Department of Odonto-Stomatology has applied
the latest treatment protocols and techniques of Chang Gung Hospital and
Professor Lun Jou Lo in the management, surgery, and long-term follow-up
management for patients with congenital maxillofacial malformations. In
particular, the Odonto-Stomatology faculty has developed a management protocol
for cleft lip and palate patients from infancy to adulthood. The number of
patients undergoing surgery and monitoring at the hospital has increased along
with the quality assurance process, bringing prestige to the Faculty of
Odonto-Stomatology and the National Children’s Hospital, according to Lan.
NCF is committed to providing free surgery for 500 children yearly in Vietnam and
regularly organising online consultations between doctors of the Department of
Odonto-Stomatology, the National Children’s Hospital and experts from the
Center for Craniofacial Reconstruction – Patients Chang Gung Memorial
International Institute.
In addition, NCF also donated a flexible bronchoscope to diagnose children with
cleft palate and palatal hypoplasia with equipment and treatment procedures
that are unprecedented in hospitals in Vietnam.
In the coming years, NCF will strengthen closer cooperation with the National
Children’s Hospital by sponsoring the costs of surgery, speech therapy, and
diagnostic endoscopic for patients./.
Source: VietnamPlus
