Hello everyone, and welcome back to the BITEsize Paediatric podcast!

This season is hosted by Yasmin (BDS3) and Chloe (BDS2) - dental students from the University of Manchester.

This episode is 1/2 of our cleft lip/palate series.

Today we are joined by Dr Jeanette Mooney at the Regional Cleft Network (based at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital). Dr Mooney qualified as a dental therapist in 1980. She has gained many post qualifications including oral health promotion, conscious sedation and a PhD examining provision oral health programmes for parents of children born with a cleft.

In this episode, we cover a range of questions:

• What is cleft lip/palate?

• When does treatment start for cleft patients?

• How and when do these patients access a general dentist?

• What errors can GDPs make?

• What is the role of the GDP in cleft patient management?

• Is oral hygiene more challenging for these patients?

This episode is ideal for those dental students or dental practitioners looking to optimise their care for patients with cleft lip/palate.

Stay tuned for EP3 where we talk to an Dr. Bronkhorst - a specialist orthodontist involved in the treatment of cleft dental anomalies!

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