“Quality of Life in Cleft Lip and Palate Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic: Speech Therapy Does Not Affect Outcome but Palate-Only Cleft Patients Have Higher Psychological QOL Scores”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38115690

The quality of life in adolescents and young adults with cleft lip and palate was not significantly different between those who received speech therapy and those who did not during the COVID-19 pandemic, but those with cleft lip and palate had weaker psychological QOL scores compared to those with cleft palate only.