Cleft lip and palate surgery is a procedure that can correct a common birth irregularity. It’s typically performed in infancy and can correct issues with feeding, speech, and appearance. Share ...

Cleft lip and palate are present in about 40 babies born in Northern Ireland each year and are caused when the lip or roof of the mouth structures do not join properly together.

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 ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects, occurring in about one in 1,050 births in the United States. These defects, which appear when the tissues that form the lip or ...

Using a national database, the researchers identified 50,450 pediatric cleft or craniofacial surgery cases performed by plastic surgeons between 2012 and 2019. For each of 69 different procedures ...

Courtney had assumed that a cleft lip and palate were genetic, but the causes of the birth defects in most infants are unknown. About 1 in every 1,600 babies is born with a cleft lip and palate in ...

The study, "Genome-wide analysis of copy number variation in humans with cleft lip and/or cleft palate identifies COBLL1, RIC1, and ARHGEF38 as clefting genes," was published Dec. 8 in the ...

Since then, Dr Rajkumar, Dr Aguila, and Dr Arturo were trained in cleft lip, cleft palate, and anaesthetic care, respectively. Over the years, the local surgical team’s expertise has grown ...

Cleft lip and palate are congenital anomalies that require multidisciplinary treatment approaches to restore both aesthetic form and functional integrity. Comprehensive management involves timely ...