Seeing Cleft Lip from a New Angle: Crowdsourcing to Determine whether Scar Severity or Lip Angle Matters More to the General Public.

Background: Modern cleft lip surgery aims to restore symmetry and create a level, normal-appearing Cupid's bow. However, families' concerns often center on the degree of scarring. The authors hypothesized that the lip angle would be less influential than scar severity in layperson ratings.

Defining Ideal External Female Genital Anatomy via Crowdsourcing Analysis.

Background: Despite existing anthropometric data in the literature regarding the variation of female external genital anatomy, the ideal aesthetic characteristics have yet to be defined.

Objectives: The authors utilized crowdsourcing to better evaluate preferred anatomic characteristics of external female genitalia.

Methods: Fifty-six total images were digitally created by altering the proportions of the labia minora, labia majora, and clitoral hood.

Transforming assessment of speech in children with cleft palate via online crowdsourcing.

Objective: Speech intelligibility is fundamental to social interactions and a critical surgical outcome in patients with cleft palate. Online crowdsourcing is a burgeoning technology, with potential to mitigate the burden of limited accessibility to speech-language-pathologists (SLPs). This pilot study investigates the concordance of online crowdsourced evaluations of hypernasality with SLP ratings of children with cleft palate.