Hearing Loss in Children With Cleft Palates

Radiology of Cleft Lip and Palate: Imaging for the Prenatal Period and throughout Life

“…Owing to dysfunction of the tensor muscles in cases of cleft palate, the eustachian tubes may not function properly, leading to accumulation of fluid in the middle ear and conductive hearing loss, with resultant speech problems. Detection of middle ear effusions and infections and the presence of tympanostomy tubes should be documented in the radiology report (46,47).…”

V Hearing Problems Associated with Cleft Palate

“…The eustachian tube in cleft palate children becomes a constant object of infection from food, trauma, and inadequate aeration. 13 These infections readily pass via the eus tachian tube to the middle ear, where an acute or chronic otitis media may result with its frequent deleterious effect on the child's hearing. Cleft palate patients have a larger proportion of acute inflammations of the middle ear and a much larger proportion of chronic suppurative and non-suppurative otitis media necessitating more frequent myrin gotomy than do non-cleft palate patients.…”