Background: Inadequacy of speech and voice due to velopharyngeal insufficiency is a major stigma for cleft patients. Therefore, the study of this clinical condition is essential to improve the development and social relations of children with this ailment. This study aimed to assess alterations in the speech, velopharyngeal sphincter, and larynx of patients with cleft palate and cleft lip and p...

Cleft lip and palate represent a major public health problem due to the possible associated life-long morbidity, complex etiology, and the extensive multidisciplinary commitment required for intervention. It affects about 1.5 per 1000 live births (250,000 new cases per year) worldwide, with tremendous variations across geographic areas and ethnic groups. It is considered a debilitating conditio...

Copyright: © 2014 Berkowitz S. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Although the treatment of children with cleft lip/palate and other types of craniofacial anomalies in the United States has improv...

REVIEW QUESTION/OBJECTIVE The objective of this systematic review is to examine the impact of breastfeeding or bottle-feeding on surgical wound dehiscence after cleft lip repair in infants. BACKGROUND Immediately after cleft lip repair in infants, breastfeeding and bottle-feeding are generally restricted. Alternative feeding methods such as spoon-feeding are recommended to avoid placing tensi...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the prevalence and unmet need for cleft lip-cleft palate reconstructive surgery by using incidence. Our hypotheses were that the age of presentation to screening clinics will decrease between 2006 and 2012, and the geospatial distribution of cases will expand to a more rural catchment area. STUDY DESIGN Longitudinal cross-sectional/geospatial distribution stu...

BACKGROUND China is the most populated country and has one of the highest prevalences of oral clefting. The present study reports the epidemiology and surgical procedures performed on the largest reported cohort of individuals with clefting in China. METHODS A retrospective review of patients who received cleft repair through Smile Train in China from 2000 to 2011 was conducted. Data on demog...

Cleft lip and cleft palate has got a high incidence in Asian births. There are different techniques for closure of the cleft. The furlows double opposing Z-plasty repair of cleft palate was first described by Leonard Furlow in 1978. Here we present 2 case of cleft palate treated with Furlows double opposing Zplasty.

Cleft lip and palate is one of the most common birth defects occurring 1 of every 700 live births. Historically, cleft lip and palate care typically involves the use of presurgical infant orthopedics appliances (PIOA) fabricated by a pediatric dentist as an adjunct to the overall management of the defect approximate the cleft segments prior to surgical repair. However, the necessity of presurgi...

Ectrodactyly, ectodermal dysplasia, and cleft lip/palate (EEC) is a rare syndrome having ectrodactyly, ectodermal dysplasia, and cleft lip/palate. So far, very few cases have been reported in literature. However, we report a case of incomplete EEC syndrome having ectrodactyly and cleft lip and palate with absence of signs of ectodermal dysplasia with no other systemic anomalies. Other feature n...

OBJECTIVES. Cleft lip palate is congenital growth disease with unknown etiology, probably linked to both genetically and external causes. The aim of this work consists in presenting the effects of these diseases on cranio facial growth and the surgical protocols described in literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS. The literature review articles conducted by Medline ranged from 1998 to 2011 have been...