Did you know that Cleft lip and Cleft Palate is the fourth most common birth defect in the United States than anywhere else? The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have done recent research that each year in the United States about 2‚650 babies are born with clefts‚ and 4‚440 babies worldwide are born with cleft lips and or born with cleft palates. Cleft lip/ Palate has occurred more in Asian‚ African American‚ Native American and even Latino babies. But researchers from the CDC have
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teach everyone what I learned the past week. A submucuos cleft palate is pretty serious and needs to be treated as soon as possible. What is a submucous cleft palate? A submucous cleft palate is one type of cleft palate. The word palate refers to the roof of the mouth and the term “cleft” indicates a split in the palate. The palate consists of both a bony portion (hard palate) and a muscular portion (soft palate). At the end of the soft palate‚ the small finger-like projection of tissue that hangs
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Infants who have a cleft lip and/or cleft palate have craniofacial anomalies that affect their ability to efficiently consume nutrients. Specifically‚ these infants have openings on their lips and/or palate that make breastfeeding or obtaining fluids from standard bottles difficult. Consequently‚ management for feeding and swallowing is vital to ensure that these infants are receiving the necessary nutrients to grow and be healthy. The role of the speech language pathologist (SLP) is to facilitate
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Child Care 11/17/13 Cleft Lip is an incomplete joining of the upper lip below the nose. It is found in around one of every 1000 births. Children with cleft lip are found to be at risk for hearing‚ speech‚ language‚ academic‚ and social difficulties. This defect can occur in all ethnic groups but is most common in Asians. It is a prenatal and genetic type of birth defect. The cause of cleft lip is somewhat unknown but doctors have many ideas. Certain medications‚ and smoking while pregnant
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Conclusion Cleft palate is recognized as the fourth most common congenital malformation‚ and is a key feature of over 200 syndromes (Cielo & Marcus‚ 2015). Researchers universally recognize the importance of a multidisciplinary team approach when evaluating and treating CLP patients. CLP creates deficits in feeding‚ swallowing‚ respiratory function‚ and speech among many others insufficiencies due to velopharyngeal incompetence (Ysunza et al.‚ 2015). Evaluations for feeding‚ swallowing‚ and speech
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My daughter’s cleft palate surgery The most memorable time in my life was my daughter’s cleft palate surgery. It was January 4th when my daughter and I had to leave El Paso‚ TX to take a trip to Austin‚ TX. It was a long drive for a little baby like her at the time she was only two years old. Early that morning my parents took us to the bus station.The bus was leaving at 6 a.m. in the morning to get to Austin‚ TX at midnight. My daughter and I felt it was the longest drive ever as the bus was
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Amir and Hassan’s cleft lip is a significant symbol since it signifies Hassan’s poverty‚ Baba’s secretly loving personality toward Hassan‚ and also is a sign of Amir’s redemption. Hassan is the son of Ali‚ who is both the servant for Baba and Ali’s family. Hassan cleft lip is due to his a deformity during his birth. First of all‚ Hassan’s cleft lip symbolizes his poverty since he is unable to afford a fix to his deformity.. In the first few chapters‚ Amir refers to Hassan’s cleft lip when describing
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SOFT PALATE Primary Palate- Triangular area of hard palate anterior to incisive foramen Forms during 4th to 7th week of Gestation Two maxillary swellings merge and two medial nasal swelling fuse Formed by the fusion of medial nasal processes Secondary Palate- Remaining hard palate and all of soft palate Forms in 6th to 9th weeks of gestation Palatal shelves change from vertical to horizontal position and fuse Formed by fusion of maxillary process ANATOMY:- Soft palate is musculo-membranous
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Laryngotracheoesophageal cleft (LTEC) is a congenital midline anomaly‚ which defines when there is a defect of the posterior part of larynx and trachea and the anterior wall of the esophagus. It is rare but attributed with considerable mortalities and morbidities (1‚ 6). There is no specific pattern of inheritance and most reported cases had a sporadic pattern‚ however‚ some reports from familial occurrence with autosomal dominant pattern also have been reported in the literature (1). Respiratory
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Stability evaluation of organic Lip Balm Alessandra Ribeiro Fernandes‚ Michelli Ferrera Dario‚ Claudinéia Aparecida Sales de Oliveira Pinto‚ Telma Mary Kaneko‚ André Rolim Baby‚ Maria Valéria Robles Velasco* Department of Pharmacy‚ Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences‚ University of São Paulo Rising global demand for natural products whose production is harmless to the environment has stimulated the development of natural cosmetics and‚ within this category‚ organics (95% organic raw materials)
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