Cleft Lip and Palate - Related Resources

Cochrane reviews

Squeezable feeding bottles appear easier to use than rigid bottles for babies born with clefts of the lip and/or palate. Breastfeeding may provide more favourable growth outcomes than spoon-feeding after cleft surgery Feeding Infants with Cleft Lip, Cleft Palate or Cleft Lip and Palate.
There is probably no significant difference in the effectiveness of different surgical interventions for correcting velopharyngeal insufficiency associated with submucous cleft palate Interventions for the Management of Submucous Cleft Palate.

Mossey PA, Little J, Munger RG, Dixon MJ, Shaw WC. Cleft lip and palate. Lancet 2009 Nov 21;374(9703):1773-85. [PubMed]
Meng L, Bian Z, Torensma R, Von den Hoff JW. Biological mechanisms in palatogenesis and cleft palate. J Dent Res 2009 Jan;88(1):22-33. [PubMed]

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