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 ...

But the complications of a cleft lip and palate go beyond the cosmetic. Children with untreated clefts can struggle with lifelong difficulties, including breathing, sucking, swallowing ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate (CL/CP) are the most commonly occurring craniofacial birth defects. Although some CL/CPs are detected on prenatal ultrasound, the majority are immediately recognized in ...

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 ...

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