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His cardiac lesion and bilateral cleftlip and palate had been antenatally diagnosed by ultrasonography at 20 weeks gestation.
Because of the controversy surrounding these issues, cleftlip and palate surgery is the subject of planned multi-centre clinical trials with long-term follow-up.
The author used a mail survey to explore how plastic surgeons handle the issue of prenatal diagnosis of cleftlip and palate.
For example, doctors usually regard cleftlip and palate, which can be found in pregnancy (by ultrasound), as an example of a mild malformation.
The relative prevalence of cleftlip alone varies however, both within and between different racial groups.
Failure of these processes may cause a cleftlip.
Facial cleft abnormalities may therefore be associated with brain abnormalities, the most extreme example being median cleftlip and lack of hemispheric fusion (ie holoprosencephaly).
An example of this would be the detection of a baby with a cleftlip and palate following delivery.
Long-term follow up study of survival associated with cleftlip and palate at birth.
However, the longterm psychological management of a child with a cleftlip and/or palate continues to be important at all levels of the service.
Early predictors of attachment in infants with cleftlip and/or palate.
Defects in fusion of the mandibular swellings and palatine shelves would result in median cleft of the lower lip and jaw and cleftlip and palate respectively.
A preliminary study of facial growth and morphology in unoperated male unilateral cleftlip and palate subjects at 13 years of age.
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