• This book is divided into 14 chapters in which unilateral cleft lip repair, bilateral cleft lip repair, cleft palate repair, cleft nose repair, operation for velopharyngeal insufficiency are described with drawing and photographs.

• In chapter 5 of this book, various classification systems have been mentioned with clinical photographs and 3D sonography.

• The book has excellent description of all aspects pertaining to cleft lip and cleft palate. It has excellent illustration of all important surgical steps.

• This book is designed to provide accurate, authoritative information about the subject matter in question.

• The competition book from Springer is more technical and elaborative whereas our book is more succinct and concise. The organization of the various chapters in our book ensures that the clinician is quickly able to find the images that are relevant to the patient in front of him, increasing the immediate value of the book in his clinic.

• The efficacy of our book lies in its simplicity of format in which chapters are structured based on the images of the various conditions and their explanations rather than text, to make this book a handy tool in the clinic of the busy surgeon, otherwise it is not possible for a detailed reading during clinic or hospital hours.