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• n  the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities

• Your palate is in decline.
• One baby out of every 800 is born with a cleft palate.
• New ways of detecting and treating a widespread birth defectCleft palate and cleft lip, which often occur together, are among the most common birth defects in the world.

• roof of the mouth

News & Articles

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• 8-year-old Bryn Mawr girl hopes to add more smiles to the world through fundraising effort
  An eight year old girl from Bryn Mawr is hoping to bring smiles to children of the world by raising money that will help a non-profit organization that provides cleft lip and palate repair surgeries to children worldwide
  June 13, 2013 - Main Line Suburban Life
• New Company, The Pure Greek Olive, Brings Rustic Greek Olive Oil to the American Dinner Table
  The Pure Greek Olive today announced the inauguration of its high quality, unadulterated gourmet olive oil to the U.S. market. Based in the Boston metro area, the company seeks to introduce a higher standard of olive oil to the American palate.
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Neal's Coffee Shop of San Mateo Offers Old Fashioned Family Cooking for Father's Day
  Neal's Coffee Shop, family and lunch restaurant in San Mateo, serves up a variety of breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes to please the palate of everyone in the family this Father's Day. (PRWeb June 12, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10827565.htm
  June 12, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Hilary Mantel in New York Times
  When you see a child anywhere, say a child that doesn't have food or a child with a cleft palate who's been kept in a back room because the family is embarrassed or whatever it may be, it takes you back to really what's basic and what's really... Cindy McCain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Hensley_McCain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEs5wKM36kKP7hDXpih42OUucnnNw FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/19/cindy-mccain-visits-vietnam-on-charity-trip/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEueCcHBl1-OGICEa5PGqxbj3S2tg Jun 19, 2008 71746 95873 palate Accepting the award, Ms. Mantel said, I had to interest the historians, I had to amuse the jaded palate of the critical establishment and most of all I had to capture the imagination of the general reader."
• Matthew Vaughn in BusinessWeek
  The movie's sort of unique, so I'm thinking, people love chocolate cake, it tastes fantastic, but once you've had six slices, you've had enough,Vaughn said. "Hopefully, we'll be the sorbet to cleanse the palate."