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 ...

If you’re the parent of a child with a cleft lip and/or palate, know that experts are ready to help and many parents have ...

Tony Markus, consultant maxillofacial surgeon, is leader of the cleft team at Poole Hospital. he says: While there is a wide spectrum of severity of clefts of either lip, palate or both ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate (CL/CP) are the most commonly occurring craniofacial birth defects. Although some CL/CPs are detected on prenatal ultrasound, the majority are immediately recognized in ...

Some cases of schizophrenia may be caused by malformations in the skull, new research suggests ... immune problems, cleft palate and developmental delays. People with the syndrome also have ...

Genetic variants Cleft lip and cleft palate, also known as orofacial clefts, can be caused by genetic mutations, but in many cases, there is no known genetic cause. "The mechanism for the ...

Many would consider being born with a cleft lip and palate a setback that could have negative implications throughout one’s whole life. Looking back now, as a 30-year veteran of the finance and ...

While lip prints aren’t typically used in forensics to nail criminals, they can offer clues to a person’s health—particularly his or her genetic predisposition to cleft lip or palate ...

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 ...

A: Typically, a cleft lip is surgically repaired when the child is 3-6 months old. A cleft palate is often repaired by age 1, ...