Feeding Prosthesis For Newborn Patient With Cleft Palate

Prosthodontics is a versatile branch which entails procedures from prevention to treatment. Feeding appliance is one of the treatment modality provided to facilitate easy nutrition to a patient with cleft palate. Cleft lip and palate is a congenital anomaly occurring at birth. The main objective of this treatment is that this procedure is to facilitate feeding but it can also be used for naso-alveolar molding. This article describes about the construction of feeding plate in a 2 month old patient.