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Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Review Open Access Palatal development of preterm and low birthweight infants compared to term infants – What do we know? Part 1: The palate of the term newborn 1 2 1 3 Ariane Hohoff* , Heike Rabe , Ulrike Ehmer and Erik Harms Address: 1Poliklinik für Kieferorthopädie, Universitätsklinikum, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, 2Department of Neonatology, Brighton Sussex University Hospitals, UK and 3Klinik für Kinderheilkunde, Division of Neonatology, Universitätsklinikum, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany Email: Ariane Hohoff* - hohoffa@uni-muenster.de; Heike Rabe - Heike.Rabe@bsuh.nhs.uk; Ulrike Ehmer - ehmer@uni-muenster.de; Erik Harms - harms@uni-muenster.de * Corresponding author Published: 28 October 2005 Received: 08 September 2005 Accepted: 28 October 2005 Head Face Medicine 2005, 1:8 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-1-8 This article is available from: /content/1/1/8 © 2005 Hohoff et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The evidence on prematurity as a priori a risk for palatal disturbances that increase the need for orthodontic or orthognathic treatment is still weak. Further well-designed clinical