The complex nature of treatment for CL/P, a condition that requires a large multidisciplinary team treating patients from birth to maturity, has been outlined. Subjecting centres' outcomes to audit should precede heeding the current siren calls for paediatricians to refer children exclusively to a particular surgical speciality. A growing body of evidence has shown a close correlation between q...

This study aimed to analyze the specific five-year oral cancer survival rate and associated factors in Brazil. This was a retrospective cohort study using the Oncological Database as the source, with probabilistic-deterministic linkage of all the records for authorization of radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy in the Unified National Health System from 2000 to 2006, generating a single record for ...

[Purpose] This study aimed to investigate the effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) on lip strength and closure function of patients with dysphagia after stroke. [Subjects and Methods] Eight patients with dysphagia were recruited. NMES was applied to the orbicularis oris muscle. All the participants received NMES for 30 min/d, 5 d/wk, for 4 weeks. Lip strength was measured using...

The lips are regarded as a paired organ for audiovisual speech communication that modulates speech sound and facial shape together in speech production. Despite the long research, the mechanism of lip protrusion is still an open question. This study aims at exploring physiological mechanisms of lip protrusion based on muscle visualization and finite element simulation of lower lip deformation. ...

This paper addresses the problem of lip segmentation in color space that is a crucial issue to a successful lip-reading system. We present a new segmentation approach to lip contour extraction by taking account of the maximum a posterior Markov random field (MAPMRF) framework. We first examine various color models and select a simple color transform derived from LUX and 1976 CIELAB color space ...

introduction: anthropometry (morphometry of the human) is measurement of linear and angular dimensions of the human body. since the anthropometric parameters which are based on age, sex, geographical location and ethnic characteristics of the human species are different, therefore, anthropometric studies of population by age and sex should be done separately. methods: in this study, anthropomet...

a 22-year-old man presented with exertional dyspnea commencing one month prior to his admission. echocardiography revealed a non-homogenous mass, and the pathology examination of the pericardial biopsy was compatible with angiosarcoma.