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Sep 15th, 2021 - The objective of this article is to assess the incidence of late bleeding following cleft palate repair (palatoplasty) in children. This is a retrospective review of a prospectively maintained database of patients treated for Cleft Lip and Palate ...

Sep 14th, 2021 - We evaluated the measurement properties for item and domain scores of the Infant with Clefts Observation Outcomes Instrument (iCOO). Cross-sectional (before lip surgery) and longitudinal study (preoperative baseline and 2 days and 2 months after l...

Sep 14th, 2021 - We conducted a meta-analysis and systematic review of literature comparing pre-reading and general reading in school-age children with nonsyndromic cleft palate with or without cleft lip (NSCP/L) to their peers without NSCP/L. Our literature searc...

Sep 14th, 2021 - This study aimed to evaluate bullying in individuals with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) using Twitter analysis. By using Twitter's advanced search feature, the four selected keywords; 'bully', 'bullying', 'bullied', and 'teased' were searched alon...

Sep 14th, 2021 - Social determinants of health (SDOH) are integral to consider when delivering craniomaxillofacial and facial reconstructive care for patients. The American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association (ACPA) has instituted a formalized multidisciplinary ...

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...

Aug 26th, 2021 - Inadequate peri-operative analgesia may contribute to an increased risk of bleeding, suture dehiscence and unacceptable surgical outcomes. Moreover, these patients are at high risk of postoperative airway obstruction and respiratory failure. Opioi...

Jun 18th, 2021 - This study is to develop a neural network to compute palatal three dimensional (3D) geometry by using routinely taken intraoral/palatal photographs and palatal casts of infants with cleft lip and palate deformity for reducing cleft lip and palate ...

Apr 15th, 2020 - : Cleft palate is a congenital deformity caused by abnormal facial development during intra-uterine life. Worldwide, the prevalence of cleft lip/palate is about 1:1000 live births. The levator vela palatini muscles are malpositioned sagittally, ru...

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...

Aug 14th, 2019 - To date, although the data are conflicting, they are consistent with either a small increased risk for selected cardiac defects and perhaps cleft palate, or no increased risk at all. However, with recent data indicating that nearly one-quarter of.

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...