METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF CHILD'S ADAPTATION TO SURGERY FOR CLEFT LIP AND PALATE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01N33/48 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: present invention refers to medicine, namely to dentistry, and describes a method for prediction of the child's adaptation to a surgical intervention for cleft lip and palate. The method involves the oral saliva sampling daily for 3-4 preoperative days; the saliva sample is dried for 1-2 hours at room temperature; that is followed by a microscopic examination of a central zone of the prepared fraction with uniform herringbone crystals with opposite directed frosting primary branches taken as a norm, and if observing the same, a favourable ground for the surgery is predicted. Irregular shaped crystals with a multiple branch herringbone and a random overall pattern and density, the child's state is considered to be unfavourable for the surgical intervention.

EFFECT: simplifying, cost-cutting and applicability of the method for assessing the child's adaptation, with improved reliability of the prediction.

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