| | Cleft Lip and Palate: A Review for Dentists |
 | | hen assessing children with cleft lip and palate, the general dentist should be on the lookout for oronasal fistulae, inability of the child to project the upper lip symmetrically and deviation of the nasal septum to the noncleft side. |
 | | After closure of a cleft palate by means of the classic techniques, in which vomerine mucosa is used to reconstitute the nasal layer of the secondary palate, the vomer and the palatal shelves are joined by a tight, unyielding, fibrous scar, which seemingly prevents normal sutural activity. |
 | | In palatal clefts, the primordial role of the palatal maxillary fibromucosa in the transverse and vertical development of the vault is adversely affected by the classic surgical techniques of palatoplasty, in which lateral palatal flaps are medially displaced to the summit of the vault. |
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