I’m pregnant with my second child. During the 20-week anatomy scan, my obstetrician detected my baby has a cleft lip. Does ...

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

Antigua has marked a significant step forward in surgical care with the successful performance of a Wardill-Kilner palatoplasty—a classic and effective cleft palate repair technique—by Dr ...

A proposed classification system appears highly accurate in evaluating nasal deformities in infants with cleft lip and/or ...

At just a few months old Charlie had his first surgery to repair his cleft lip and then at nine months a surgery on the palate. In total he has had 15 surgeries, the most recent was to build a new gum ...

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 ...

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, they are ...

10- Millar K, Bell A, Bowman A, Brown D, Lo TW, Siebert P, et al. Psychological status as a function of residual scarring and facial asymmetry after surgical repair of cleft lip and palate. Cleft ...

Introduction Cleft lip with or without palate (CLP) can be diagnosed antenatally through ultrasound, and may be categorised as apparently isolated versus associated with other malformations. Limited ...