Strategies to Improve Regeneration of the Soft Palate Muscles After Cleft Palate Repair
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Strategies to improve regeneration of the soft palate muscles after cleft palate repair.
Children with a cleft in the soft palate have difficulties with speech, swallowing, and sucking. These patients are unable to separate the nasal from the oral cavity leading to air loss during speech. Although surgical repair ameliorates soft palate function by joining the clefted muscles of the soft palate, optimal function is often not achieved. The regeneration of muscles in the soft palate ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1937-3368,1937-3376
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2012.0049