She had heard about a cleft lip and palate camp offering surgery free of charge by a Canadian medical team called Operation Rainbow Canada. But the help she needed wasn’t for her child.

However, this is more common with an overt cleft palate rather than a submucous cleft palate. The most noticeable symptom of VPI is nasally speech. This is known as hypernasality. In addition to ...

Infants with CP may have a tongue that falls into the cleft and obstructs the airway. Some infants with CP require the use of an oropharyngeal airway to alleviate this problem. [3] If the infant ...

Decreased phallic size from hypoplasia of the penis is uncommon; it may be seen with severe forms of hypospadias and chordee. [45] The technical term, micropenis, refers to a penis that is ...

A study of cleft palate in horses shows that while it leads to euthanasia in half of affected horses, the condition is, thankfully, extremely rare. Older animals with cleft palates may have persistent ...

hotmail.com Bifid mandibular condyle (BMC) is a rare asymptomatic morphological alteration with no predilection for age group or gender. Its morphology varies from a shallow groove to two condylar ...

The vomer bone is a thin, unpaired bone located in the center of the nasal cavity. This small, trapezoidal bone is part of the nasal septum, the middle wall of the nasal respiratory cavity. It ...

India Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) is an insidious chronic progressive disease of the oral cavity which is considered as a precancerous condition. The suggested aetiological factor is the practice ...

Results Of the 98 787 children, 69 (0.07%) were diagnosed with cleft lip alone, 113 (0.11%) were diagnosed with cleft lip and palate, and 52 (0.05%) were diagnosed with cleft palate within 1 month ...

A swollen uvula or tongue, nausea, and pain are also common. A tonsillectomy procedure may done if you or your child experiences frequent infections, or because of large tonsils that contribute to ...