Many would consider being born with a cleft lip and palate a setback that could ... where I largely kept to myself, isolated by the social stigma associated with having a cleft.

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 ...

For an infant with isolated CP, the prognosis is also excellent. Some children develop velopharyngeal insufficiency, characterized by nasal regurgitation and nasal speech. A palatal flap procedure ...

There is phenotypic and genotypic overlap between Van der Woude syndrome and isolated cleft of the lip and/or palate. Subjects with isolated cleft of the lip and/or palate have been shown to have ...

HealthDay News — Racial and ethnic differences are seen with primary cleft lip surgery repair, according to a study published online in the November issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Connor ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a continuously replicating model of lip cells from donated lip tissue. These indefinitely growing ...

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 ...

An infant with an isolated CL will typically have no problems with breathing. Infants with CP may have a tongue that falls into the cleft and obstructs the airway. Some infants with CP require the ...