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

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

The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital, in partnership with Operation Smile and the General Hospital of Ba Vi district, launched a free surgical program for underprivileged children with deformities on ...

One pint-sized Chihuahua mix rescue dog says all of this with one look in his eyes. Despite being born with a cleft lip and ...

The lips should be fully formed, continuous, and without scars or irregularities ... Infants with CP may have a tongue that falls into the cleft and obstructs the airway. Some infants with ...

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 ...

A proposed classification system appears highly accurate in evaluating nasal deformities in infants with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP), reports a study in the May/June issue of The Journal of ...

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 ...

Caroline underwent a 14-hour life-changing surgery to help her smile at the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital during Smile Week.

Botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) has emerged as a promising agent in both scar management and wound ... experimental work in animal models of cleft lip repair highlighted that BTX-A reduces ...

in both permanent and deciduous dentition of patients with Cleft Lip and/or Palate (CL/P). Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study included CL/P patients older than 4 years of age who had ...