FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to dentistry, and can be used in determining the approach to correction of a hard palate defect in children. On the diagnostic model of the upper jaw of the child, a line A is drawn, passing tangentially to the distal ends of the alveolar process of the jaw, and a line B passing through the tops of the canine cusps, the distance AB between these lines is determined, point C corresponding to the vertex of the edges of the crevice convergence is marked, a line is lowered from it perpendicular to line A, determining point A' at the intersection of the lines. determining the distance between points C and A', and determining K – degree of defect, %, as ratio of hard palate defect to individual size of palate by formula: 
. If the K value is up to 30% and less, the first degree is determined and surgical intervention with closure of the palate defect in the neonatal period, palate massage, full artificial feeding are recommended; if K is from 31 to 60%, the second degree of the defect is determined, and surgical intervention with the closure of the palate defect from 6 months to a year of life, palate massage and dispensary observation by an orthodontist are recommended; if K is equal to 61% or more, the third degree of the defect is determined, and surgical intervention with closure of the palate defect from 1 to 1.5 years, palate massage are recommended.
EFFECT: due to reliable determination of the defect degree, the method enables differentiated specification of the integrated treatment approach, higher therapeutic effect and quality control of achieving normal anatomical ratios and clinical effectiveness in children with clefts of the hard palate.
1 cl, 7 dwg, 6 ex
