Via his charity, Cleft, the 81-year-old Briton has not only trained local plastic surgeons using the techniques acquired over his distinguished career, but also put together a team which includes ...

Tony Markus, consultant maxillofacial surgeon, is leader of the cleft team at Poole Hospital. he says: While there is a wide spectrum of severity of clefts of either lip, palate or both ...

My job is to maximize the care during the first four months of their life. So, one of the things we do early on is try to bring the cleft together so the surgeon will find it easier to put the lip ...

Data analyses demonstrated that non-White children were more likely to have delays to cleft lip surgery (after age six months) – between 23% and 29%, compared to just eight percent for White ...

These professionals are dentists with at least four years of additional surgery training, so they can do everything from treating facial traumas to fixing cleft lips. They can diagnose and treat ...

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

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 ...