I’m pregnant with my second child. During the 20-week anatomy scan, my obstetrician detected my baby has a cleft lip. Does this mean my baby also has a cleft palate? How and when is a cleft lip or ...

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

By: Melanie Blumenthal, M.D., pediatrician, Craniofacial Program, Stramski Children’s Developmental Center, Miller Children’s ...

For over twenty years it has been customary for us to repair a cleft lip when the baby has reached 2.7 kg. (6 pounds), is in good health, is gaining steadily and is five or six weeks of age.

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 ...

Cleft lip surgery typically happens around 3 months of age, and cleft palate surgery around 9 to 12 months. In between, babies are learning to eat, communicate their needs, play and babble.

The cleft may be repaired, but the bony structures of the teeth and everything else is not. As clinicians, we don’t repair the bony components of the gums in infancy because the bony aspects of the ...

Next, children will have surgery to repair the cleft and close the gap. Children will usually have surgery for a cleft lip between 3 and 6 months and for a cleft palate between 6 and 12 months ...

Teen Undergoes Surgery to Repair Congenital Condition Pectus Excavatum. ... If your child has a cleft lip or cleft palate, the surgeries they need will depend on their age and the severity of the ...

The bilingual speech-language pathologist knows it can be challenging to obtain treatment for this complex congenital difference that is associated with speech development problems, even after surgery ...