title: Management of an infant with cleft lip and palate with phocomelia in dental practice.
abstract: Cleft lip and palate is a severe birth defect occurring approximately one in 800-1000 newborn infants. The incidence varies widely among races. Cleft lip and palate together account for approximately 50% of all cases whereas isolated cleft lip and isolated cleft palate occur in about 25% of cases. Many of these congenital anomalies appear to be genetically determined though the majority are of unknown causes or teratogenic influences. Presented here is a 3 day old infant with bilateral cleft lip and palate and phocomelia for whom a feeding obturator was made and delivered to facilitate feeding.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Pediatric Dentistry, Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Muthu
mesh_terms: D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D004480:Ectromelia / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010158:Palatal Obturators; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D017755:Prosthesis Fitting