Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Palatal development of preterm and low birthweight infants compared to term infants – What do we know? Part 1: The palate of the term newborn | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Review Open Access Palatal development of preterm and low birthweight infants compared to term infants - What do we know Part 1 The palate of the term newborn Ariane Hohoff 1 Heike Rabe2 Ulrike Ehmer1 and Erik Harms3 Address 1Poliklinik fur Kieferorthopadie Universitatsklinikum Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster Germany 2Department of Neonatology Brighton Sussex University Hospitals UK and 3Klinik fur Kinderheilkunde Division of Neonatology Universitatsklinikum Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster Germany Email Ariane Hohoff - hohoffa@ Heike Rabe - Ulrike Ehmer - ehmer@ Erik Harms - harms@ Corresponding author Published 28 October 2005 Received 08 September 2005 . r Accepted 28 October 2005 Head Face Medicine 2005 1 8 doi l 746-160X-1-8 This article is available from http content 1 1 8 2005 Hohoff et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The evidence on prematurity as a priori a risk for palatal disturbances that increase the need for orthodontic or orthognathic treatment is still weak. Further well-designed clinical studies are needed. The objective of this review is to provide a fundamental analysis of methodologies confounding factors and outcomes of studies on palatal development. One focus of this review is the analysis of studies on the palate of the term newborn since knowing what is normal is a precondition of being able to assess abnormalities. Methods A search profile based on Cochrane search strategies applied to l0 medical databases was used to identify existing studies. Articles mainly those published before 1960 were identified from .
