CHARACTERISTICS
A congenital fissure of the palate caused by the failure of the palatal shelves to fuse.
What is a cleft palate?
Trimester of pregnancy when the cleft lip and palate fail to normally fuse during the embryonic process.
What is the first trimester?
This is the number of classes in the cleft classification system.
What is 7?
Bone from the rib, the iliac crest, the skull, or the mandible is good for this procedure.
What is a bone graft?
A removable prosthesis may be designed to provide closure of the palatal opening.
What is an obturator?
Unilateral or bilateral congenital fissure of the upper lip, usually lateral to the midline.
The cleft becomes more apparent this month during utero.
What is the 2nd month?
This is the classification for clefts in the soft palate.
What is Class 3?
The age that the lip union surgery for cleft lip is performed.
What is 2 to 3 months of age?
A removable appliance to complete the palatopharyngeal valving required for speech.
What is a speech aid prosthesis?
This population is more susceptible statistically to have cleft lips and/or palates.
What are Asians and native Americans?
The cleft palate becomes more apparent during this month.
What is the 3rd month?
This is considered a class 4.
What is a cleft in the hard and soft palate?
The age that the cleft palate surgery is performed.
What is 18 months or earlier?
Used to adjust the anterior and posterior of the arch differently depending on the need for expansion in each area.
What is a fan-shaped expander?
Feeding difficulties in children with cleft lip and/or palate contribute to this disease.
What is Early Childhood Caries?
Weeks in utero when lip formation occurs.
What is between 4 to 8 weeks?
Classification for a cleft at the tip of the uvula.
What is class 1?
A type of therapy for someone with cleft lip and/or palate that should be started at an early age.
What is speech therapy?
A retainer to allow the alveolar bone to grow passively, facilitate feeding, and support good tongue posture.
What is a passive appliance?
People with cleft lip and/or palate are predisposed to these infections.
What are respiratory and ear infection?
Developmental weeks of the palate.
What is the 6th to the 12th week?
The class that includes the cleft of the soft and hard palates that continues through the alveolar ridge on both sides, leaving a free premaxilla. Usually associated with bilateral cleft lip
What is Class 6?
The child that is about 10 weeks of age, weighs 10 pounds, and has achieved a serum hemoglobin of 10 mg/ml is ready for this procedure.
What is the surgical union of the lip?
Used to adjust the anterior and posterior parts of the arch symmetrically.
What is a Hyrax expander?