Cleft palate surgery remains a critical area within craniofacial surgery, with advances aimed at improving anatomical repair, functional outcomes and reducing postoperative complications. Contemporary ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’m pregnant with my second child. During the 20-week anatomy scan, my obstetrician detected my baby has a cleft lip. Does this mean my baby also has a cleft palate? How and when is ...

For children with cleft palate, corrective treatment typically requires years of complex surgical operations for most of their childhood. But a relatively new surgical strategy developed at University ...

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 ...

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

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Every parent dreams of having a healthy baby. According to the March of Dimes, nearly 7,000 babies are born every year in this country with a birth defect in the lip or tongue.

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors, which, in early fetal development, can result in babies with facial differences such as a cleft lip or ...

A cleft palate is a V- or U-shaped gap in the tissue between the mouth and the inside of the nose. It includes variable separation of the muscular soft palate and uvula (the small piece of tissue that ...

Cleft palate is a congenital malformation that not only affects feeding, speech and facial aesthetics, but is also closely associated with a range of otologic complications. One of the most pressing ...

Children of non-White racial/ethnic backgrounds experience significant disparities in access to and outcomes of surgery to repair cleft lip, reports a study in the November issue of Plastic and ...