cleft palate repair
Fixing oral fissure
Cleft palate repair is surgery to close an opening in the roof of the mouth present from birth.
The palate normally fuses during fetal development; when it doesn't, the resulting gap affects feeding, speech, and hearing.
Repair typically occurs in infancy, with surgeons repositioning tissue to close the cleft: The baby is scheduled for cleft palate repair at nine months.
- speech therapyTreatment for communication disorders
- speech pathologistCommunication disorder specialist
- pharynxMuscular throat cavity
- nasal cavityAir channel in nose
- uvulaSoft palate pendant
psychological support · orthodontics · developmental delays · anesthesia · nutritional counseling · bone graft · prosthodontics · suturing · speech disorders · oral · infant · baby bottle · feeding tube · stitches · operating room · scar · hospital · congenital
- surgeriessurgery, appendectomy, hysterectomy, minor surgery, elective surgery
- facial surgeryfacelift, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, nose job, eyelid surgery
- ENT Surgerytonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, septoplasty, rhinoplasty, mastoidectomy
- pediatric surgeryappendectomy, malrotation, atresia, neuroblastoma, conjoined twins
- reconstructive surgeryplastic surgery, facial reconstruction, breast reconstruction, bone grafting, cranioplasty
- plastic surgeryrhinoplasty, facelift, liposuction, breast augmentation, tummy tuck
cleft palate repaircosmetic dentistry
Procedures improving tooth appearance
cosmetic enhancement · rhinoplasty · facelift · teeth whitening · Botox
cleft palate repairablation
Removal by cutting, melting
amputation · extraction · debridement · incision · fenestration