Books Available by Dr. Berkowitz

The following books are available by Dr. Berkowitz:

Cleft Lip and Palate: Diagnosis and Management, 3rd Edition (2013)
Cleft Palate Treatment: The Road to Normalcy

Cleft Lip and Palate: Diagnosis and Management - Editor Samuel Berkowitz

This extremely comprehensive book has been edited by a leader in the field of orofacial clefting. Through the text it is clear that Dr. Berkowitz has achieved his goal of bringing together the contemporary concepts of diagnosis and management for patients with clefts. Although few will read this book cover-to-cover, most readers will dip into one or two individual areas at a time. Dr. Berkowitz has facilitated this by breaking the text into readable sections dealing with each issue. Students and experienced clinicians find it easy to find the information they want quickly.

The Third Edition is now available online as well as in print.

The book contains everything that most clinicians and researchers would want within a book about orofacial clefts: embryology, cleft typology, facial growth, surgery, presurgical orthopedics/comprehensive orthodontic treatment, bone grafting, speech and psychology. In the main, the concepts presented are supported by appropriate evidence. Space is allocated to a section on 'The Future,' detailing current clinical and molecular research and the potential promise of global collaborative research. This is a most worthwhile section.

The third edition of Cleft Lip and Palate: Diagnosis and Management is an unparallel review of treatment concepts in all areas of cleft involvement presented by an international team of experienced clinicians. The text can never be duplicated since it largely consists of longitudinal facial and palatal growth studies of dental casts, photographs, panarexes, and cephalographs from birth to adolescence. Throughout all growth and treatment concepts, it highlights the need for differential diagnosis in treatment planning. The underlying argument that all of the treatment goals - good speech, facial aesthetics, and dental occlusion – can be realized without the need to sacrifice one for the other. Every chapter author's concepts arose from extensive experience subjected to testing. Emphasis is placed on the essential character of multicenter clinical studies for improving understanding of the natural history of the cleft defect and the face in which it is found.

These chapters will show that chronological age is not the parameter that really matters in determining the age at which to close the cleft in the palate. What is important is morphologic age physiological fitness, that is whether the tissues are adequate in quantity and whether the geometric relationship of cleft parts is favorable or unfavorable for reconstruction. Some question incidents, which date back 25 years, concerning the relationship of malformed palatal segments to the contiguous skeletal anatomy, which, in turn, may be anomalous. The following questions are also addressed: Are the palatal segments static in their deficiency or does the deficiency diminish in time, that is, is "catch up growth" a predictable phenomenon? And if so, what surgical procedures (as to age and type) make it possible?

Many of Pruzansky's thoughts, written so many years ago, still hold true today and are worth repeating. He stated that whoever sees things from their beginning will have the most advantageous view of them. To that end, most of the serial cases presented in this volume start soon after birth when plaster casts and photographs of the palatal and facial defects are taken. Serial lateral cephaloradiographs are added as soon as the child is manageable, and again taken periodically through adolescence.

It is hoped that clinicians who are just beginning their involvement in cleft palate will learn the pathology and its natural history of cleft palate from the cases presented in this book and appreciate the need to keep careful records (casts, cephaloradiographs, photographs, and panorexes) which are of vital importance to both the processing of knowledge and self-criticism.

Order the book from Amazon.com or from Springer-Verlag.

Cleft Palate Treatment: The Road to Normalcy

Table of Contents:

When a Child Is Born with a Cleft
Feeding Your Child
The Anatomy of Clefts
The Causes of Clefting
The Cleft Palate Team
Preparing for Surgery
Surgery
Facial and Dental Concerns
Speech Concerns

A digital copy of Cleft Palate Treatment: The Road to Normalcy is also available at www.cleftlippalateaudiovisuallecture.org.

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