Children born with these conditions often face childhood malnutrition and endure a lifetime of stigma and speech difficulties ...

Lauren Onishi wants others to realize clefts are more than a cosmetic concern. Over the last 20 years, cleft lip and palate awareness has grown, spurred in part by TV commercials from the ...

Bobbi Conner talks with MUSC's Dr. Kristen Lancaster about reducing risk of cleft lip and palate birth defects.

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 ...

Born with a bilateral cleft lip, Kynlee, 10, began noticing her facial differences around age 6. Other kids noticed, too. “They would make her feel different, and they would draw attention to ...

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 ...

A new classification system seems to be highly accurate for evaluating nasal deformities in infants with cleft lip and palate ...

She was also born with a cleft lip, which is an opening that occurs in the upper lip when facial structures don't close all the way in an unborn baby. Heintz has transformed her childhood ...

The analysis included 5,927 children who underwent reconstructive surgery for cleft lip (without cleft palate repair) between 2006 and 2012. Data were drawn from the nationwide Kids' Inpatient ...

When a nation is spread over 7,641 islands and a set of parents abandon a child because of a cleft lip, getting surgery to repair the lip seems impossible unless there’s a big sister involved to ...

Biologists have discovered that disruptions in transfer RNA function can lead to the development of cleft lip and cleft palate. Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects ...