Diana Zubiri recently shared the tough journey of raising her son, King, born with a cleft lip and palate. The celebrity mom faced fear, uncertainty, and the struggle for acceptance. She also endured ...

In an initiative aimed at improving the lives of children with congenital disabilities, Smile Train and KGMT Multispecialty ...

Baby Everett has been cared for by the Alberta Children’s Hospital since before he was even born. At the 20-week ultrasound, his parents, Lindsay and Chris, learned he would be born with a cleft lip ...

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 ...

which is a similar split in the upper lip. Fortunately, cleft palate can be treated with surgery, which is usually done in early childhood to repair the opening. Recently, James Paulo Dumael Tadeo, a ...

Cleft lip (CL) needs surgical repair at a very young age ... All study procedures were completed before the patients underwent surgery to ensure that the effects of surgical trauma would not confound ...

Infants with CP may have a tongue that falls into the cleft and obstructs the airway. Some infants with CP require the use of an oropharyngeal airway to alleviate this problem. [3] If the infant ...

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 ...

These techniques include percutaneous valve replacement, arrhythmia ablation surgery, and strategies that ... complications that arise late after repair of tetralogy of Fallot, to describe the ...

For two patients who underwent a secondary procedure, endoscopic percutaneous repair failed again to heal the cleft. During the follow-up period after surgery, none of the patients had stridor, ...