Introduction: Children with cleft lip and/or palate are at increased risk of obstructive sleep apnea. The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea in this population is unknown. The purpose of this study was to assess the frequency of obstructive symptoms and obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis in the cleft population. We hypothesized that obstructive symptoms present more frequently in children wit...

Kazakova, Irina, "Effects of Cleft Palate+/-Lip surgery and speech therapy on language development in children with cleft palate +/-lip.

In this study, we aim to understand the morphology and structure of upper lip orbicularis oris muscle, and to provide clinical evidence for evaluating the effect of repair operation in cleft lip. Subjects included 106 healthy people and 36 postoperative patients of unilateral cleft lip. The upper lip orbicularis oris muscle was scanned using ultrasound in natural closure and pout states. Our re...

Cleft lip and palate is the most common of the congenital conditions affecting the face and cranial bones and is associated with a raised risk of difficulties in infant-caregiver interaction; the reasons for such difficulties are not fully understood. Here, we report two experiments designed to explore how adults respond to infant faces with and without cleft lip, using behavioural measures of ...

Craniofacial development consists of a highly complex sequence of the orchestrated growth and fusion of facial processes. It is also known that craniofacial abnormalities can be detected in 1/3 of all patients with congenital diseases. Within the various craniofacial abnormalities, orofacial clefting is one of the most common phenotypic outcomes associated with retarded facial growth or fusion....

OBJECTIVE To assess dental age in children with a complete unilateral cleft lip and palate and to compare this with a noncleft control group. DESIGN Two-group, mixed-longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Cleft group from an academic center for cleft lip and palate treatment. Noncleft control group from the same population. PATIENTS Participants included 70 Caucasian children with a full comp...

Compliance with primary surgical treatment in people with cleft lip and palate is a well-known problem, especially in developing countries fraught with poverty and ignorance. Different protocols of treatment exist. In this paper, we retrospectively review a cohort from two centres, with a discussion on the outcome and its implications. The records of all patients with cleft lip and palate seen ...

The aim of this study was to assess hypoplasia in permanent maxillary anterior dentition. The sample for this study consisted of 60 subjects divided into two groups: Group 1 consisted of 30 subjects with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate. Group 2 consisted of 30 subjects with complete bilateral cleft lip and palate (both males and females). Informed consent was taken from all patients. I...

BACKGROUND The optimal time to create symmetry in a cleft lip is during primary repair; a secondary effort later is more difficult due to potential scarring and possible tissue deficiency of the repaired cleft lip. A plethora of methods for secondary correction have been described that have the goal of constructing the philtral column, ameliorating bad scar results, and augmenting lip volume, f...

OBJECTIVE   The first part of this study validated an automated computer-based method of identifying the three-dimensional midfacial plane in children with unrepaired cleft lip. The purpose of this second part is to develop computer-based methods to quantify symmetry and to determine the correlation of these measures to clinical expectations. PARTICIPANTS   A total of 35 infants with unrepair...