Children born with these conditions often face childhood malnutrition and endure a lifetime of stigma and speech difficulties ...

Babies born with a cleft lip or cleft palate, or both, will face some additional challenges in the early years of their lives, and so will their parents. Babies with clefts need to have surgery ...

Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Kristen Lancaster about reducing risk of cleft lip and palate birth defects.

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 ...

A proposed classification system appears highly accurate in evaluating nasal deformities in infants with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP), reports a study in the May/June issue of The Journal of ...

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 ...

The daily ordeals and struggles faced by parents of children born with cleft and palate deformities were ... by a Professor of Oral Pathology, Radiology, and Medicine, Azeez Butali, the Lagos ...

Instagram/Smile Train I am a retired professional nurse and nurse practitioner born with facial difference — a complete bilateral cleft lip and palate, which consists of splits or gaps on both ...

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 ...

In cleft lip and palate, the formation of the mouth region is impaired during embryonic development. To date, more than 45 genetic segments are known to contain common risk variants.