Word: clefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby out of every 800 is born with a cleft palate. Uncorrected, the condition makes normal speech impossible. Rival schools in medicine and dentistry have long argued over the best time and the best way to perform surgery to help these handicapped children. Most orthodox surgeons favor operating at about 18 months-to prevent the development of bad speech habits and to ward off nose and throat diseases...
...Northwestern University's Cleft Lip and Palate Institute, Orthodontist Graber and other researchers emphasize that five-sixths of the upper jaw's growth is completed in the first five years of life, while the lower keeps on growing for another dozen years or more. When surgery is performed to close a cleft palate in an infant only one or two years old, Dr. Graber says, the growth of the upper jaw may be stunted, tooth buds are often destroyed, and normal growth of the lower jaw eventually produces a grotesque appearance...
...favored by Dr. Graber is to put off surgery* until the child is four or five years old. This need not mean that the child cannot learn to talk, or must learn wrong ways of talking. Dr. Graber holds: a plastic false palate can be fitted to close the cleft, and worn until the age when surgery becomes desirable...
Soriano's polar opposite in Manila is stocky, cleft-chinned Father Walter B. Hogan, 37, a Jesuit priest from Philadelphia who arrived in the Philippines in 1933, became a teacher at Ateneo de Manila, a Jesuit college. He was professor of classics and the clarinet-toting mentor of the school band; the boys called him "Benny Goodman in a cassock." He also developed a deep interest in Filipino workers and Catholic trade unionism; in 1947 he established Ateneo's Institute of Social Order...