The act of feeding an infant is extremely complex. Feeding requires the infant to coordinate five cranial nerves, multiple spinal segments in the chest wall, and 30 pairs of muscles across several physiological systems (oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal, and respiratory). In addition, successful feeding is dependent on optimal infant state and positive caregiver interactions. Recently, Goldfield, Per...

AIM Anterior open bite (AOB) is an occlusal anomaly commonly associated with oral habits (OH). The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of OH as a risk factor for the AOB. MATERIALS AND METHODS A group of children aged between 3 and 12 years were observed. The statistical methodology included independent chi-square test, Fisher's exact test and binary logistic regression. RESUL...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of injuries related to bottles, pacifiers, and sippy cups among young children in the United States. METHODS A retrospective analysis was conducted by using data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System for children <3 years of age treated in emergency departments (1991-2010) for an injury associated with a bottle, pacifier, or sippy cup. ...

It is good to be reminded of drugs that not so long ago passed away in disgrace, for someone may have failed to bury a drug or may have mistakenly resurrected it, having forgotten its dangers. Not so many years ago I missed a diagnosis of Pink disease (but was put right by my friend John Black): a chemist had found a large packet of mercurycontaining teething powders. In the 1940s and 1950s the...

BACKGROUND Early transition from breastfeeding and non-nutritive sucking habits may be related to occlusofacial abnormalities as environmental factors. Previous studies have not taken into account the potential for interactions between feeding practice, non-nutritive sucking habits and occlusal traits. This study assessed the effects of breast-feeding duration, bottle-feeding duration and non-n...

Airway management is one of the key aspects of neonatal anesthesia, and an oropharyngeal airway is used in daily intensive care practice to relieve upper-airway obstruction. Cleft palate is among the various congenital malformations that can cause difficult airway management. We describe a syndromic infant with alobar holoprosencephaly, whose long-term airway patency was maintained with a modif...