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

Stacey was bullied for her cleft lip, and she now wants to destigmatise it for her son and help those born with the condition feel less isolated.

You may think you don’t know anyone with a cleft lip or palate, but when you have a baby with a cleft, you realize you’re in good company, Krist says. About 1 in 700 babies is born with some ...

A molecular mechanism where impaired tRNA splicing disrupts cranial neural crest cells, revealing MYCN, DDX1, and tRNA processing defects as risk factors for orofacial clefts.

A cleft occurs when certain structures don’t fuse together during fetal development. Clefts can involve the lip and/or the roof of the mouth, which is made up of both hard and soft palate.

Inspired Life Girl with cleft lip adopts dog with same difference: ‘There’s just a bond’ “They love that the puppies look like them,” said Lindsay Weisman, founder of Cleft Rescue Unit.

Additionally, many craniofacial syndromes and conditions such as cleft lip and cleft palate, syndromic craniosynostosis (Apert, Crouzon, Pfeiffer, Muenke, Saethre-Chotzen, etc.), Hemifacial microsomia ...

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 ...

About 5,700 babies are born with Down syndrome each year in the U.S., and over 400,000 people in the country currently live with it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The Cleft and Craniofacial team at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, treats patients with congenital and acquired abnormalities of the head and neck. The most common ...

Pregnant Samantha Hanratty Shares Her Baby Boy Will Be Born with a Cleft Lip: 'He's Going to Be Okay' "I'm not going to lie and pretend that this has been the easiest of news," Hanratty shared in ...

Cleft lip and palate surgery is a procedure that can correct a common birth irregularity. It’s typically performed in infancy and can correct issues with feeding, speech, and appearance.