Associations between dental consonant articulation, orofacial morphology and function in cleft lip/palate

ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN DENTAL CONSONANT ARTICULATION, OROFACIAL MORPHOLOGY AND FUNCTION IN CLEFT LIP/PALATE

Jaana Laitinen

Academic dissertation

to be publicly discussed with the assent of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Helsinki for public examination in Auditorium XII of the University Main Building, on 3 December, 1999, at 12 noon.
HELSINKI 1999

Supervised by

Docent Reijo Ranta, DDS, PhD
Docent Marja-Leena Haapanen, MD, PhD
Cleft Center, Department of Plastic Surgery,
Helsinki University Central Hospital

Reviewed by

Docent Pirjo Korpilahti, PhD
Department of Phonetics,
University of Helsinki

and
Professor Juha Varrela, DDS, PhD
Department of Oral Development and Orthodontics,
Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku

Published by

Helsingin yliopiston verkkojulkaisut
Helsinki 1999
ISBN 951-45-8988-2 (HTML version)