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 ...

[Courtesy] Children born with cleft lip and palate face difficulties while suckling, and this is heartbreaking for mothers. Sylvia Krian, a mother of a three-month-old who was born with a cleft ...

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 ...

The child looks more like everyone else at school. Q: How many of these types of patients do you treat each year? Kau: We see about 60 to 80 cleft lip palate births at Children’s Hospital each year ...

The analysis included 5,927 children who underwent reconstructive surgery for cleft lip (without cleft palate repair) between 2006 and 2012. Data were drawn from the nationwide Kids' Inpatient ...

Data analyses demonstrated that non-White children were more likely to have delays to cleft lip surgery (after age six months ...

Amukelani, born with a cleft lip, is among 18 children receiving corrective surgery during Smile Week thanks to donors.