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May 28th, 2022 - This study aims to characterize current use, knowledge, and attitude toward ERAS protocols by academic craniofacial surgeons. Craniofacial surgeons were provided with electronic surveys. Electronic survey; Institutional tertiary surgeons. 102 clef...

May 26th, 2022 - Cleft Palate and Ventilation Tubes - A Prophylactic Dilemma.|2022|Machado A,Santos M,Leitao B,Silva A,Coutinho M,|

May 25th, 2022 - Infants with cleft palate commonly have feeding difficulties due to incomplete development of orofacial structures. It has been reported that 67% of infants with cleft palate have feeding difficulties and 86% cannot be breastfed. Feeding difficult...

May 24th, 2022 - Cleft palate is a common congenital anomaly for which surgical repair is indicated during early childhood. The surgical repair of cleft palate is very painful, and generally requires high doses of opioids for adequate pain control, placing childre...

May 24th, 2022 - The objective of the Swedish cleft lip and palate registry (CLP registry) is to promote quality control, research and improvement of treatment, by the comparison of long-term results. The aim was to compare data from the CLP registry among the six...

Jan 26th, 2022 - Management of Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate: Adopted by the FDI General Assembly: 27-29 September 2021, Sydney, Australia.|2022||

Jul 19th, 2020 - Phosphoglucomutase 1 (PGM1) deficiency is a rare genetic disorder that affects glycogen metabolism, glycolysis, and protein glycosylation. Previously known as GSD XIV, it was recently reclassified as a congenital disorder of glycosylation, PGM1-CD...

May 6th, 2017 - To (1) indicate the definition, the disease state, methods of diagnosis, and testing for otitis media with effusion (OME) in childhood (<12 years); and (2) recommend methods of treatment in accordance with the evidence-based consensus reached by t...

May 25th, 2022 - Infants with cleft palate commonly have feeding difficulties due to incomplete development of orofacial structures. It has been reported that 67% of infants with cleft palate have feeding difficulties and 86% cannot be breastfed. Feeding difficult...

May 24th, 2022 - Cleft palate is a common congenital anomaly for which surgical repair is indicated during early childhood. The surgical repair of cleft palate is very painful, and generally requires high doses of opioids for adequate pain control, placing childre...

May 20th, 2022 - Cleft palate is a condition which affects up to 1:500 births. Current practice is that children are enrolled in a multidisciplinary care team and undergo primary cleft palate repair at 12 months of age. These children are admitted to hospital over...

May 19th, 2022 - Unilateral cleft lips can be treated with different incision techniques. According to a survey by the American Cleft Palate Association, the Millard II technique is currently used by the majority of US cleft surgeons. In this technique, a cleft-si...

May 18th, 2022 - Orofacial clefts are the second most common birth deformity and vary in etiology and phenotype, e.g. isolated cleft palate, cleft lip or cleft lip palate. Especially newborns with unilateral complete cleft lip and palate (UCLP) present severe faci...

Jan 25th, 2022 - Editor's Note: The Case Challenge series includes difficult-to-diagnose conditions, some of which are not frequently encountered by most clinicians but are nonetheless important to accurately recognize. Test your diagnostic and treatment skills us...

Feb 10th, 2021 - Mothers who used macrolides or prescription opioids in early pregnancy did not seem to have an increased risk of having a baby with a birth defect, according to a pair of observational studies. Compared with those who took penicillin, expectant mo...

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...

May 21st, 2020 - Oral fluconazole in pregnancy was linked to increased risk for congenital bone and muscle abnormalities in a population-based cohort study. Mothers who took low-dose fluconazole -- an antifungal agent used to treat vaginal yeast infections, among ...

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...