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 3: Discussion and Conclusion | BioMed Central Head Face Medicine Review Open Access Palatal development of preterm and low birthweight infants compared to term infants - What do we know Part 3 Discussion and Conclusion 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 02 November 2005 Received 08 September 2005 I o - AAr I mzzi-rzz IZAXZI IA Accepted 02 November 2005 Head Face Medicine 2005 1 10 doi 1746-160X-1-10 This article is available from http content 1 1 10 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 It has been hypothesized that prematurity and adjunctive neonatal care is a priori a risk for disturbances of palatal and orofacial development which increases the need for later orthodontic or orthognathic treatment. As results on late consequences of prematurity are consistently contradictory the necessity exists for a fundamental analysis of existing methodologies confounding factors and outcomes of studies on palatal development in preterm and low birthweight infants. Method A search of the literature was conducted based on Cochrane search strategies including sources in English German and French. Original data were recalculated from studies which primarily dealt with .
