Background Eating and drinking are enjoyable activities that positively impact on an
individual's quality of life. The ability to swallow food and fluid is integral to the process of …

Background Surgical correction of orofacial clefts greatly mitigates negative outcomes.
However, access to reconstructive surgery is limited in developing countries. The present …

BACKGROUND: Patients with cleft lip and/or palate can undergo numerous procedures to
improve appearance, speech, dentition and hearing. We developed a cleft-specific patient …

Objective The aim of the present study was to report the prevalence of cleft lip and palate
(CLP), isolated cleft palate (CP), isolated cleft lip (CL), and median cleft (MC) applied in …

Introduction Patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments should be developed according to
rigorous guidelines in order to provide clinically meaningful, scientifically sound …

Background: Orofacial clefts are one of the most common congenital anomalies, but this
disease burden is unevenly distributed worldwide. The authors hypothesize that this burden …

Craniofacial bone defect anomalies affect both soft and hard tissues and can be caused by
trauma, bone recessions from tumors and cysts, or even from congenital disorders. On this …

Objectives Cleft lip-palate (CLP) is a “social” pathology because of its impact on the child's
facial appearance and speech. School is the first place where children are confronted to …

建立具有中国特色的唇腭裂多学科序列治疗专家共识， 对提高我国的唇腭裂治疗水平具有较为
现实的指导意义。 本文将21 家医疗单位唇腭裂序列治疗中唇腭裂的外科前治疗， 唇 …

Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, records of 28,519 infants born between
March 1982 and March 2011 at three major hospitals in Mashhad were screened for oral …