Role of bone graft materials for cleft lip and palate patients: A systematic review [PDF]
Cleft lip and palate is a congenital anomaly. Its management requires a long term commitment, multidisciplinary and structured treatment. Treatment is initiated at infancy and continues till adolescence.
Wahaj, Aiyesha+2 more
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Blindness following a LeFort I osteotomy is a rare but extremely serious complication. Ten cases have been reported to date. None of these patients recovered vision.
Philip Mathew+3 more
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Oral Clefts with Associated Anomalies: Findings in the Hungarian Congenital Abnormality Registry [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Over the years, great efforts have been made to record the frequency of orofacial clefts in different populations. However, very few studies were able to account for the etiological and phenotypic heterogeneity of these conditions. Thus, data
Czeizel, Andrew E.+2 more
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Electrophysiological assessment of auditory processing disorder in children with non-syndromic cleft lip and/or palate [PDF]
Objectives Cleft lip and/or palate is a common congenital craniofacial malformation found worldwide. A frequently associated disorder is conductive hearing loss, and this disorder has been thoroughly investigated in children with non-syndromic cleft lip
Ma, LIAN, MA, X, McPherson, DB
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Cleft palate (CP) is a common neonatal craniofacial defect caused by the adhesion and fusion dysfunction of bilateral embryonic palatal shelf structures. Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) is involved in CP formation with regulatory mechanism unknown.
Ming Zhang+5 more
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Objective: To evaluate the patterns of cleft lip and palate by its type, side, gender, laterality and extent of involvement of hard and/or soft palate in patients reported to a tertiary care hospital in Karachi.
Zubair Ahmed Abbasi+4 more
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Feeding interventions for growth and development in infants with cleft lip, cleft palate or cleft lip and palate. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Cleft lip and cleft palate are common birth defects, affecting about one baby of every 700 born. Feeding these babies is an immediate concern and there is evidence of delay in growth of children with a cleft as compared to those without ...
Bessell, A+5 more
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Mental health status of children with cleft palate and lip referred to Shiraz Orthodontic Research Center [PDF]
Introduction: Children with cleft lip and palate have a wide range of emotional and social problems and low self-esteem from birth these problems affect the child's mental function.
Maryam Ghorbanzadeh+5 more
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Meta-analysis Reveals Genome-Wide Significance at 15q13 for Nonsyndromic Clefting of Both the Lip and the Palate, and Functional Analyses Implicate GREM1 As a Plausible Causative Gene [PDF]
Nonsyndromic orofacial clefts are common birth defects with multifactorial etiology. The most common type is cleft lip, which occurs with or without cleft palate (nsCLP and nsCLO, respectively).
Ahmed, S.T. (Syeda)+19 more
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Primary unilateral cleft lip repair
The unilateral cleft lip is a complex deformity. Surgical correction has evolved from a straight repair through triangular and quadrilateral repairs to the Rotation Advancement Technique of Millard.
H. S. Adenwalla, P. V. Narayanan
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