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I appreciate Barbara's comments on this thread about oral digital exams. I
agree that this is not something to be routinely done with every baby.
Even with my relatively limited experience, if I can figure out what the
problem is and how to solve it without a digital exam, then I suppose it is
not necessary to do one. I can see how in a practice such as
Barbara's it is probably more often necessary than not. I see more of a
mixed clientele, many relatively simple hospital routine induced/poor
management type problems, but occasionally there is one where there is
obviously more going on then this, and it is for these cases that I feel the
need to acquire the skill of assessing oral anatomy, learning to recognize
normal and abnormal. I think to say *never* about such an exam would mean
missing some problems.
But, how does someone like myself, with little experience doing oral digital
exams, learn the feel of a normal palate vs.. the abnormal? By performing
an oral digital assessment on every, or most babies, in order to feel plenty
of normal palates?
Yael Wyshogrod IBCLC
Rechovot, Israel
Yael
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