Management of Cleft Lip and Palate: A Five Year Review

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  • Emmanuel JK Adu
  • Peter Donkor
  • Kwame Nkrumah
چکیده

The child with a cleft palate cannot speak normally, is likely to suffer from earache and deafness, may leak food and fl uids through the nose, and may suffer from malnutrition as a result of an inability to feed properly [2]. It is imperative that surgical treatment to make the patients anatomically, functionally and aesthetically as near normal as possible be performed as soon as the patients are fi t to undergo surgery. Previous studies Abstract

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تاریخ انتشار 2017