A 6-year-old girl presented to our department with impaired nasal breathing. Examination revealed a cleft nose (Figure a) and a smoothly demarcated endonasal mass displacing the nasal septum to ...

researchers aim to improve the overall assessment and treatment of speech disorders in individuals with cleft palate. Hypernasality: A speech disorder characterized by excessive nasal resonance ...

Cleft lips are usually diagnosed during the 20 ... as ‘p’ and ‘b’ accurately and we may hear them using more nasal sounds such as ‘m’, ‘n’, or ‘ng’. “About half of children ...

Surgical repair needed, speech therapy needed. A submucous cleft palate that doesn't affect a child's speech usually is watched carefully by the care team to make sure it doesn't cause problems as the ...

This is done in the hospital while the baby is under general anesthesia. If the cleft lip is wide, special procedures like lip adhesion or nasal alveolar molding (NAM) might help bring the parts of ...

including deviated septum (an irregular shape of the nasal septum), cleft palate, and tumor growth. The smallest bone of the skull, the vomer is thin and flat. Viewed from the side, it is shaped ...

Additionally, children often suffer minor nasal injuries early in childhood and then develop abnormal growth after these injuries. Patients who are born with a birth defect that affected the ...

A bifid uvula, while a rare but often benign sign, can sometimes be indicative of a submucosal cleft palate and is associated with recurrent middle ear infections and nasal regurgitation on swallowing ...

We have adopted the 10th rib as the key option for NTC reconstruction in 11 cases of Chinese cleft secondary rhinoplasty since 2019 and have achieved good and stable results without complications.