Feeding In Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate Infants

by Subhima Goel

Cleft lip and palate represents the second most frequently occurring congenital deformity after clubfoot deformity. These structural defects of the facial-oral complex may vary from slight notching of the lip or a small cleft in uvula to a complete separation of the lip and absence of the partition between the oral and nasal cavities. Babies with clefts of the lip and palate have problems during feeding. They find it difficult to latch onto the breast...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3659382124
• ISBN13: 9783659382123
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"