Every three minutes, a child somewhere in the world is born with a cleft lip or cleft palate. The condition is medically correctable, often through a single surgery. Yet for many children, ...

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, learn ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate is cause due to improper fusion of the facial tissues in the middle. It affects one in 700 babies. There may be just a cleft in the upper lip or the cleft may affect the ...

AS Watson, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer, marked its 185th anniversary by announcing a major ...

Most cleft lip and palate teams, including the one in Lancaster, have social workers and psychologists on board who are trained to help children with these issues. If your child has a student in his ...

A new study, led by University College London (UCL) and published in Nature Communications, has revealed for the first time how genetic and environmental factors come together to form cleft lip or ...

"Their mailer just continued to perpetuate that [she is] a monster," said Jess O'Connell, who's daughter was born with a cleft lip. A charity organization’s mailer to raise funds for children with ...

John Blankenship will have another surgery next summer to close the hole in the roof of his mouth. His family is so grateful ...

A researcher has documented a cleft lip in an ancient mummified head from the Andes, a condition that may have been seen as a ...

A preoperative nerve block may help reduce morphine consumption for pediatric patients undergoing primary cleft palate repair.

According to pediatrician Dr. Brigitte Ricalde on “Pinoy MD,” a cleft lip or cleft palate occurs when there is a failure of ...