July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of cleft lip and palate defects. About 6,000 to 8,000 babies are born in the United States with ...

Prevalence and Factors Associated with Behavioral Problems in 5-Year-Old Children Born with Cleft Lip and/or Palate from the Cleft Collective. Being Normal yet Different: A Qualitative Study on ...

Many would consider being born with a cleft lip and palate a setback that could have negative implications throughout one’s whole life. Looking back now, as a 30-year veteran of the finance and ...

Around one in 700 babies worldwide are born with a cleft lip or palate. However, many parents and carers have little idea of how clefts affect children’s ability to make speech sounds and learn ...

Scientists have successfully immortalized lip cells, creating a clinically relevant lab model that enables testing of new ...

Dr. Crowley teaches the cleft palate speech course at TC. Over the years she developed a five-day cleft palate speech and feeding training program that has been offered in Asia, Africa, and Latin ...

With a gloved finger, gently feel for submucous clefts. Keep the tongue from obscuring landmarks. Cleft lip and palate are often seen in infants with Trisomy 13 (Fig 7). Examine the infant's ...

Main research interests: Factors that influence treatment outcome for children with cleft palate. In recent years, Dr. Hardin-Jones' research has examined the impact of cleft palate on early vocal ...

Considering taking supplements to treat oral submucous fibrosis? Below is a list of common natural remedies used to treat or reduce the symptoms of oral submucous fibrosis. Follow the links to ...

The birth of a child with a cleft lip or palate, or both, can be very upsetting, especially as not all families can afford the high treatment costs. Now, Swiss researchers have developed a low ...

Children of non-White racial/ethnic backgrounds experience significant disparities in access to and outcomes of surgery to ...

S Gholami, Newcastle University April 2024 CC060 Developing reference data for the Intelligibility in Context Scale and exploring associations between intelligibility and language development for ...