Word: clefts
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...Soviet theory that environment shapes most human qualities and the Nazi theory of inherited racial supremacy both "appear to be nonsense," according to a scientist who has produced cleft palate, misshapen brains and many other deformities in mice...
...suffer from mongolism. But Dr. Ingalls found skull defects (actually worse than mongolism) in about a third of the litters which had been starved of oxygen on the eighth day of development. Lack of oxygen on the twelfth day gave them harelip, on the 14th day, cleft palate...
...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...
...Except for harelip (a condition usually found with cleft palate), for which operations may begin when the baby is only a few days...