July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of cleft lip and palate defects. About 6,000 to 8,000 babies are born in the United States with ...

We collected comprehensive data on care and outcomes from 268 children with unilateral cleft lip and palate. The established multi-disciplinary centralised service should be maintained. To do this, ...

Many would consider being born with a cleft lip and palate a setback that could have negative implications throughout one’s whole life. Looking back now, as a 30-year veteran of the finance and ...

A cleft palate is a V- or U-shaped gap in the tissue between the mouth and the inside of the nose. It includes variable ...

When Eloise Lundeen was born with a cleft lip and palate, her parents weren’t sure what to do. The birth defect occurs when the upper lip and roof of the mouth (known as the palate) of a ...

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 ...

Infants with CP may have a tongue that falls into the cleft and obstructs the airway. Some infants with CP require the use of an oropharyngeal airway to alleviate this problem. [3] If the infant ...

Cleft Care UK (CCUK) a cross sectional survey of five year old children with non-syndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of reconfigured ...

Samantha Hanratty says her baby son is doing "incredible" after his "absolutely terrifying" cleft lip surgery, calling him "so strong." The 'Yellowjackets' actress shared in September that she learned ...

Briss DS, Long RE Jr, Peterman JB 3rd, Doucet JC, Daskalogiannakis J, Hathaway RR, Mercado AM, Russell K, Stauffer L. Evaluating SWAG and Its Validity When Compared to 3D Imagery of Secondarily ...

Funded by Chevron, these organisations came together to provide free surgeries for patients with cleft lips and palates in Sylhet. It wasn't just Adiba—this mission offered surgery to 66 patients, ...