A team-work approach to cleft palate rehabilitation in South Africa

Nasoalveolar Molding: A new Method for Cleft Lip and Palate Rehabilitation

Introduction: Cleft lip and palate is a congenital anomaly occurring in 3 in 1000 live birth. One the major concern in this patient is about cleft gap and its surgical problems. Several surgical and non-surgical procedures have been done to decrease this gap. They aimed to achieve the more esthetic results as well as feeding success. Nasoalveolar Molding (NAM) is a new method for reshaping nasa...

Mathematical Modeling in Rehabilitation of Cleft Lip and Palate

Mathematical modeling is the art of translating problems from an application area into tractable mathematical formulations whose theoretical and numerical analysis provides insight, answers, and guidance useful for the originating application. In recent years, mathematicians and medical researchers have combined their individual expertise to study diseases of the human body that are amenable to...

A Novel Tool to Prevent Endotracheal Tube Compression in Cleft Palate Surgery

modern surgical techniques in treatment of patients with cleft lip & cleft palate

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Cleft Palate

An infant born with a cleft palate inherits many handicaps. Unable to develop intraoral negative pressure, he cannot suckle and hence cannot feed in a normal fashion. Furthermore, on swallowing, he expels his feedings through the nose. The open cleft, because of failure to warm and moisten the inspired air, produces a continuing sore throat. The middle ears become secondarily involved with sero...