DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm pregnant with my second child. During the 20-week anatomy scan, my obstetrician detected my baby has a cleft lip. Does this mean my baby also has a cleft palate? How and when is ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Every parent dreams of having a healthy baby. According to the March of Dimes, nearly 7,000 babies are born every year in this country with a birth defect in the lip or tongue.

Often, cleft lip can be detected through ultrasound, but families need to wait a few months before their babies can have the reparative surgery. Dr. Barbu Gociman is a facial plastic surgeon who ...

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 ...

Somerville, Mass., 05/07/2025 – Cleft lip and/or cleft palate are among the most common craniofacial birth defects in the United States. These conditions, collectively referred to as orofacial clefts, ...

Every three minutes, a child somewhere in the world is born with a cleft lip or cleft palate. The condition is medically correctable, often through a single surgery. Yet for many children, ...

Children of non-White racial/ethnic backgrounds experience significant disparities in access to and outcomes of surgery to repair cleft lip, reports a study in the November issue of Plastic and ...

Goodluck Junaid Eko is a four- and-a-half year-old boy living with cleft lip. Any time he speaks, says his mother, people find it hard to hear him, especially his friends. This, is often painful to ...

Cleft lip and palate surgical outcomes continue to be a critical area of interdisciplinary research, combining surgical innovation, orthodontic planning and long‐term developmental evaluations.