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Diagnosis and surgical treatment planning in both medicine and dentistry are most frequently dependent on the patient’s age and nature and extent of the tissue’s defect. In cleft lip and palate, the timing for surgically closing a cleft palate has been traditionally based solely on the age of the patient and the onset of speech (usually between 6 and 8 months) irrespective of the physical assets and defects of the affected tissue and not on the relative size of the palatal cleft defect to that of the surrounding palatal tissue.
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Berkowitz, S., Berkowitz, S., Berkowitz, S. (2013). Choosing the Best Time for Palatal Surgery. In: Berkowitz, S. (eds) Cleft Lip and Palate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30770-6_17
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