Does cleft palate repair reduce the incidence of middle ear pathology?

• Main Authors: Sunil Kumar Rout (Author), Sudarsan Baliarsing (Author), Manoj Kumar Lath (Author), Aparajita Debnath (Author), Suresh Prasad Dash (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: In an infant, cleft palate usually affects his/her feeding, speech, eustachian tube, and middle ear physiology. The incidence of otitis media with effusion is particularly very high in the children having cleft palate. Repair of cleft palate is believed to reduce this incidence. Object...