feeding aid

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feeding aids

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An ancillary prosthesis that closes the oral-nasal cavity defect, thus enhancing sucking and swallowing, and maintains the right and left maxillary segments of infants with cleft palates in their proper orientation until surgery is performed to repair the cleft—called also feeding appliance, feeding prosthesis

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fē′di˘ng ād