"Le Smile" Xia Ningying to help children with cleft lip and palate retrieve a smile

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan client August 21st. On August 20th, Ms. Hua took the 8 -year -old son Dongdong (pseudonym) to Wuhan University Stomatological Hospital to participate in the "Le Smile" summer camp. This special summer camp is organized for families with cleft lip and palate children. Through popular science lectures, on -site diagnosis and treatment, fun games, etc., it helps children and parents to treat cleft lip and palate treatment and rehabilitation correctly.

"There are still many parents who do not understand the cleft lip and palate, causing the child to fail to treat it in time after birth, affect the appearance, pronunciation, and even cause psychological disorders." Experts call More children with cleft lip and palate.

Pay attention to children with cleft lip and palate, special summer camp opening

Every 600 newborn children have a child with cleft lip and palate. This congenital deformity not only seriously affects the child's facial beauty, but also directly affects the development and function of the maxillofacial area, and at the same time leads to voice and psychological problems.

In order to treat the knowledge of science popularization and fill the gap in domestic voice and psychological therapy, on August 20th, 2022 "Le smiles" and the parent -child voice and psychological rehabilitation summer camp opened. Family participating in online lectures.

The summer camp gathers experts and scholars from multiple disciplines such as orthodontics and lip and palate plastic surgery, oral orthodontics, oral orthodontic department, oral prevention department, video department, and voice and psychological experts from Huaxi Stomatology Hospital in Sichuan University. Through expert discussions, on -site diagnosis and treatment, fun games, etc., provide scientific treatment knowledge for children and parents to help children improve the level of pronunciation.

The summer order is hosted by the Communist Youth League Wuhan University School of Stomatology, co -organized by the Clearing and Patriotic Center of Wuhan University Stomatology Hospital, and the SMile Service Team (Student) of Wuhan University. This is the sixth event organized by the summer camp. Since its launch in 2016, 800 groups of cleft lip and palate families have benefited.

Children Mom: I also want to join the ranks of volunteers

"We are going to the third step of the manual now, you tell me, what should I do next?"

"Put the red parts to the green part."

Volunteers play games with small children. Photo by Wang Chunlan, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily

Under the guidance of volunteers, Dong Dong chatted while chatting. His upper lip had faint scars, and the pronunciation was slightly not standard.

Ms. Hua Hua, Ms. Hua, told the Yangtze River Daily that when she was pregnant, she found that the fetus had cleft lip and palate. The whole family insisted on leaving the child. She had a repair operation less than 8 months after the birth of Dongdong. The child is in elementary school now and has a good grade in the class.

"The child had a repair surgery in the golden time. At present, the language ability has returned to 90%, but he is a little sensitive to his" special "occasional." Ms. Hua said, "Why is it different from other children? "".

It turns out that due to the defects of the sound of the proclaim, children with cleft lip and palate often have problems such as slow voice development, resonance, and abnormal sounding sound. In order to imitate and emit normal voice, they often move the pronunciation parts backwards to form abnormal bad badness. Pronunciation habits. Even if the surgery is undergoing, voice assessment and treatment need to be performed, and the correct pronunciation is required.

After being invited to participate in the summer camp activities, after communicating with other families and listening to experts to explain professional popularization, Ms. Hua had a new understanding of postoperative recovery and language training, and was determined to continue training the child's pronunciation ability.

At the same time, Ms. Hua also germinated a new idea: she also wanted to join the volunteer team to provide help that can be able to help other children and family children and families.

Experts appeal: still need to increase publicity

Clearing lip and palate is the congenital deformity of the oral and maxillofacial facial facial for the most common oral and maxillary facial. It has been included in the 20 major diseases of major diseases in my country. At present, the treatment of cleft lip and palate at home and abroad -sequence therapy, including morphological repair, restoring physiological functions, to correction A series of treatment methods such as error pronunciation and maintenance of psychological health run through each growth and development stage of patients from birth to grown up.

According to Fu Yuchuan, director of the Cerpliner Center of the School of Stomatology of Wuhan University, the golden period of the treatment of cleft cleft lip was earlier within 8 months after birth. Surgical repair as soon as possible, and after a period of recovery after surgery, it is time to reduce the effect of congenital deformities on pronunciation, which can be more conducive to children's psychological recovery.

"But in fact, because of the remote location and backward knowledge, there are still many patients with cleft lip and palate failure to receive treatment in time." Fu Yuchuan told the Yangtze River Daily reporter that when he went to some remote areas and mountainous areas, he often encountered children with cleft lip and palate children. Some parents do not even know that this is a disease that can be improved through surgery. When he was a free clinic at the Kangba Plateau last year, he also met a local patient in his 60s and performed a repair surgery for the other.

"It is also necessary to continue to increase publicity, so that all parents can get the correct popular science knowledge, so that children with cleft lip and palate can start surgery and recovery in the golden stage of treatment, which can change the children's future life." Fu Yuchuan called for.

(Changjiang Daily reporter Wang Chunlan correspondent Jiang Chuxian Li Xian and Guo Yanyu)

[Edit: Yu Lina]

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