What Does Cleft Lip and Palate Care Cost? The Time and Economic-Associated Burden of Care From Birth to Maturity.

This study aims to describe the burden of care (BoC) for the management of patients with nonsyndromic cleft lip and palate (CLP) by identifying provider burden, characterizing an interaction burden, and calculating an economic burden associated with their health system interactions. A retrospective chart review was conducted of patients with nonsyndromic CLP treated at a pediatric tertiary hospital between January 1, 1999, and April 30, 2021. Healthcare utilization data for inpatient and outpatient interactions were extracted.

Through-and-Through Dissection of the Soft Palate for Pharyngeal Flap Inset: A "Good-Fast-Cheap" Technique for Any Etiology of Velopharyngeal Incompetence.

Objective: To determine the efficacy and resource utilization of through-and-through dissection of the soft palate for pharyngeal flap inset for velopharyngeal incompetence (VPI) of any indication.

Design: Retrospective review.

Setting: Tertiary care center.

Landau-Kleffner syndrome: a rare auditory processing disorder series of cases and review of the literature.

Objective: To describe the clinical presentation and treatment of 3 children with an Auditory Processing Disorder with an identifiable neurological cause: Landau-Kleffner syndrome. This classical syndrome is well recognized in pediatric neurology but the diagnosis is less well known to Pediatric Otolaryngology, Speech Language Pathology and Audiology services.

Methods: Retrospective chart review of three patients with Landau-Kleffner syndrome.