BACKGROUND Orofacial clefts are the most common craniofacial congenital malformations, with significant anatomic, ethnic, racial and gender differences. OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence, distribution and characteristic features of various types of non-syndromic clefts among Israeli Jews and Arabs. METHODS We conducted a retrospective multi-center survey in 13 major hospitals in Isra...

BACKGROUND The association between the risk of orofacial clefts in infants and the use of corticosteroids during pregnancy is unclear from the available evidence. We conducted a nationwide cohort study of all live births in Denmark over a 12-year period. METHODS We collected data on all live births in Denmark from Jan. 1, 1996, to Sept. 30, 2008. We included live births for which information ...

Introduction: Orofacial clefts are the most common craniofacial birth defects, affecting a significant number of individuals worldwide. The alveolar cleft is developmental defect that affects process maxilla and often associated with lip palate. Methods: In this case report, we present 20-year-old female patient who underwent secondary reconstruction using autologous iliac bone grafting. aim pr...

In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for Tönnis' (2021) hypothesis that German cleft sentences address relatively unexpected questions in discourse while their canonical variants expected questions. We present an experiment measures the relative preference between and its variant contexts differ with respect to how question is they answer. The expectedness of was measured separately a n...

The opinions presented below concerning the choice of the timing of the cleft lip and palate repair have been presented on the basis of the literature and own experience. The comments and attempts to make an assessment reflect both direct contacts with representatives of numerous centres conducting interdisciplinary treatment of patients with clefts, as well as 35 years of the first author's ex...