If your child has a cleft lip or cleft palate, the surgeries they need will depend their age and the severity of the cleft. The following is a general timeline of procedures, but keep in mind that ...

Cleft lip and palate surgery is a procedure that can correct a common birth irregularity. It’s typically performed in infancy and can correct issues with feeding, speech, and appearance. Share on ...

When I was born, two tiny gaps (no more than a few millimeters across) split apart my upper lip and the roof of my mouth. My parents had known about this craniofacial anomaly — immediately apparent to ...

Around one in 700 babies worldwide are born with a cleft lip or palate. However, many parents and carers have little idea of how clefts affect children’s ability to make speech sounds and learn ...

The birth of a new baby anywhere in the world is a celebration, but one of the uncommon news items to hear from doctors after delivery is, “Something is wrong with your baby.” Caption: Taiwo and ...

Several thousand babies in the United States are affected by cleft and craniofacial birth defects each year. The most common, cleft lip and cleft palate, happens when the lip and/or roof of the mouth ...

Economic status appears linked to increased risk of being born with a cleft palate or lip, new research suggests, building on past evidence that it can also result in delayed care and poorer outcomes.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids born with cleft palate were no more likely than kids in the general population to suffer from hoarseness in a new study of almost 500 children who had undergone palate ...

We cared for a term neonate admitted to the NICU because of respiratory distress. A severe cleft lip and palate and a variety of minor dysmorphic features were recognized. The initial CBC showed a ...

What Are Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate? Cleft lip and cleft palate are facial and oral differences that occur very early in pregnancy, while the fetus is developing inside the uterus. When the tissues in ...