ALLMedicine™ Cleft Lip Center

Sep 23rd, 2021 - Optimal correction of the cleft nasal deformity remains challenging. The purpose of this study was to examine the practice patterns and postoperative course of patients undergoing cleft lip repair with rhinoplasty compared to those who have primar...

Sep 23rd, 2021 - Cleft lip with or without palate (CL  ±  P) may impact children's eating, drinking, speaking, breathing, and hearing. We aim to evaluate psychosocial problems in Indonesian cleft center school-age patients identified after one or more surgical int...

Sep 22nd, 2021 - Patients with cleft lip and/or palate require complex and longitudinal care by a multidisciplinary cleft team. Unfortunately, delivery of cleft care is often fragmented, and care practices can vary significantly. Multiple clinical practice guideli...

Sep 22nd, 2021 - The purpose of this study was to evaluate the postoperative skeletal stability of orthognathic surgery performed without a bone graft in cleft lip and palate patients. Nineteen cleft lip and palate patients that underwent orthognathic surgery from...

Sep 22nd, 2021 - Although many cleft teams have adopted nasoalveolar molding to improve nasal form, few comparative studies have assessed the postoperative benefits of this treatment. Given that reported outcomes have been contradictory and that treatment involves...

Aug 18th, 2020 - Use of venlafaxine (Effexor), a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), is associated with more birth defects than any other antidepressant taken in the first months of pregnancy, new research suggests. Jennita Reefhuis, PhD "Our study...

Sep 25th, 2019 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Dear colleagues, I am Christoph Diener from the faculty of medicine at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, here to discuss some highlights from the recent literature. I have five papers to shar...

May 20th, 2019 - Exposure to any benzodiazepine in early pregnancy is associated with an increased risk for spontaneous abortion (SA), new research suggests. Using data from the Quebec Pregnancy Cohort (QPC), investigators matched each pregnancy with five randomiz...

Apr 16th, 2018 - CHICAGO — In a retrospective analysis of registry data on more than 10 million live births, the risk for childhood cancers was 2.6-fold higher in children born with nonchromosomal abnormalities than in children born without any defects. In additio...

Dec 30th, 2017 - Action Points The risk of oral clefts (cleft lip or palate) at birth was almost threefold higher among infants born to women exposed to topiramate compared with an unexposed group, with greater risk among women taking higher higher doses of the dr...