[The follow-up of the orthodontic treatment of facial cleft patients with the Göttingen computer-supported documentation system].

Abstract

The care of patients with cleft lip, alveolus, and palate demands supervision of the development and progress over a long period of time. It also requires a standardized and systematic basic documentation. In our cleft center the documentation is summarized on one sheet of paper with DIN-A4 formation (297 x 210 mm). The use of electronic data processing improves the documentation. The storage of general and medical data has been supplemented by a personal computer system, PC-System. Five years after developing of this computer aided documentation system several patients are shown as examples for the application of this system for longterm control patients with cleft lip, alveolus, and palate.