Monday, December 1, 2008
Summary
This blog is to acquaint people with cleft lip and cleft palate. There are pictures to show what cleft lips and cleft palates look like, as well as a video explaining the connection between the drug Lamictal, which is used to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder, and cleft lip and palate in unborn children. There are also PubMed journal articles describing cleft frequencies, how a cleft lip and palate may affect one's auricle and how alcohol consumption during pregnancy may cause a child to be born with a cleft lip or cleft palate. Essentially, this blog is designed to teach people about cleft lip and cleft palate.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Cleft Lip and Palate Links
http://www.operationsmile.org
Operation Smile is a well-known organization that gathers medical volunteers to give free facial reconstruction to children who have facial deformities.
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/children/parents/special/birth/034.html
This website is primarily for parents of children with cleft lip and palate, but it describes what has happened in a child with cleft lip and palate, how the child may speak, how he or she may nurse, and other common questions asked about cleft lip and palate children.
Operation Smile is a well-known organization that gathers medical volunteers to give free facial reconstruction to children who have facial deformities.
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/children/parents/special/birth/034.html
This website is primarily for parents of children with cleft lip and palate, but it describes what has happened in a child with cleft lip and palate, how the child may speak, how he or she may nurse, and other common questions asked about cleft lip and palate children.
Monday, September 29, 2008
PubMed Journals
http://libproxy.uncg.edu:2079/pubmed/18019810?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
This journal describes some of the different frequencies of cleft lip and palate between African American and Caucasian individuals. Among their genders and races, white males and black females were the most commonly affected. When separated by the different types of clefts however, these figures changed. White people are more likely to be afflicted with cleft lip and palate, whereas black people are more likelyto have just cleft palate. In both races, hard palate cleft occured the least often.
http://libproxy.uncg.edu:2079/pubmed/18812870?ordinalpos=5&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
This journal explains the possibility of "growth disturbances" in the auricle of children with cleft lip and palate. While the study is only being proposed in this article, the experiment is well thought out. The auricles of 50 children (ages 5-18) with cleft lip and palate will be compared with the auricles of the control group, which will consist of 50 children of the same age group who are not afflicted with cleft lip and palate.
http://libproxy.uncg.edu:2079/pubmed/10064665?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=2&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed
This study is interesting. Scientists interviewed mothers who had consumed alcohol one month before to three months after the conception of their children in an attempt to link the alcohol consumption with cleft lip and palate. Surprisingly, the women who did consume alcohol were not at an increased risk. Those who drank in excess however, had increased risks for delivering babies with isolated cleft lip (with or without cleft palate).
This journal describes some of the different frequencies of cleft lip and palate between African American and Caucasian individuals. Among their genders and races, white males and black females were the most commonly affected. When separated by the different types of clefts however, these figures changed. White people are more likely to be afflicted with cleft lip and palate, whereas black people are more likelyto have just cleft palate. In both races, hard palate cleft occured the least often.
http://libproxy.uncg.edu:2079/pubmed/18812870?ordinalpos=5&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
This journal explains the possibility of "growth disturbances" in the auricle of children with cleft lip and palate. While the study is only being proposed in this article, the experiment is well thought out. The auricles of 50 children (ages 5-18) with cleft lip and palate will be compared with the auricles of the control group, which will consist of 50 children of the same age group who are not afflicted with cleft lip and palate.
http://libproxy.uncg.edu:2079/pubmed/10064665?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=2&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed
This study is interesting. Scientists interviewed mothers who had consumed alcohol one month before to three months after the conception of their children in an attempt to link the alcohol consumption with cleft lip and palate. Surprisingly, the women who did consume alcohol were not at an increased risk. Those who drank in excess however, had increased risks for delivering babies with isolated cleft lip (with or without cleft palate).
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