Sensi is currently being used by the Sonrie Conmigo project in Venezuela to detect congenital heart diseases under children with cleft palate.

La Sonrie Conmigo is a nonprofit organization led by parents of a child with this condition and is responsible for helping children with cleft lip and palate in Venezuela. In this sense, we provide special feeding bottles, feeding instructions and higuiene, family support, totally free operations in Venezuela or the UK depending on the severity of the case, and Venezuelan doctors training to prepare better operating techniques to provide improved operations, with better results for our children. In Venezuela, the operation protocol currently used by many physicians, close the mouth to 3 years , resulting in problems of adaptation, food, language, and hearing the children, besides performing up to 9 operations to solve the problem. In contrast, the British protocol , is only 2 operations, the 3 and 6 months of age, reconstructed lip and palate muscles, and the result of mobility, speech and aesthetics are exceptional.

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The following article was published within the Cleft Palate Journal (1981 Jan;18(1):19-23) on the prevalence of CHD under the cleft lip population:

The prevalence of congenital heart disease among the population of a metropolitan cleft lip and palate clinic.

The entire infant population of the Tufts-New England Medical Center Cleft Palate Clinic was reviewed, and the prevalence rates of congenital cardiac anomalies were calculated. The overall prevalence rate of congenital heart disease among the facial cleft clinic population was 6.7%, with a prevalence rate of 9.1% among patients with submucous cleft palate, 7.7% with congenital palato-pharyngeal incompetence, 0% with cleft lip only, 5.3% with unilateral cleft lip and palate, 12.5% with bilateral cleft lip and palate, 4.3% with cleft palate only, 13.6% with Pierre-Robin anomaly, 7.1% with cleft lip and palate and a syndrome diagnosis, 16.7% with cleft palate and a syndrome diagnosis.