A look at bifid uvula, a condition affecting the palate of the mouth. Included is detail on complications of the condition and outlook for a bifid uvula.

A bifid uvula is sometimes referred to as the mildest form of a cleft palate. A cleft palate is one of the most common birth defects and occurs when there is a hole in the roof of a baby’s mouth ...

The only concern with a bifid uvula is that there are rare occasions when a "submucous" (under the tissue lining) cleft palate occurs, meaning that the midline fusion occurred but did so incompletely.

A bifid uvula or bifurcated uvula is a uvula with a visible cleft. While prevalence rates ranging from 0.18% to 10.3% have been documented throughout existing literature, with higher rates in South ...

Practice Published: 12 March 2005 Bifid tongue — a complication of tongue piercing P S Fleming & T R Flood British Dental Journal 198, 265–266 (2005) Cite this article ...