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 ...

Scientists have successfully immortalized lip cells, creating a clinically relevant lab model that enables testing of new ...

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 ...

Lip problems, simply, have been impossible to treat. Dr. Martin Egen at Bern University Hospital "just changed that." ...

The Yellowjackets star shared that her son will be born with a cleft lip and/or cleft palate in a TikTok yesterday, telling fans it was a "shocking" realization. "It doesn't run in my family. It doesn ...

Many would consider being born with a cleft lip and palate a setback that could have negative implications throughout one’s whole life. Looking back now, as a 30-year veteran of the finance and ...

Dr. Crowley teaches the cleft palate speech course at TC. Over the years she developed a five-day cleft palate speech and feeding training program that has been offered in Asia, Africa, and Latin ...

The birth of a child with a cleft lip or palate, or both, can be very upsetting, especially as not all families can afford the high treatment costs. Now, Swiss researchers have developed a low ...

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 ...

Children of non-White racial/ethnic backgrounds experience significant disparities in access to and outcomes of surgery to ...

TV host Wendy Williams has apologised after appearing to mock Joaquin Phoenix for a scar on his upper lip. The US presenter was accused of insulting people with a cleft palate while discussing the ...

Children of non-White racial/ethnic backgrounds experience significant disparities in access to and outcomes of surgery to repair cleft lip, reports a study in the November issue of Plastic and ...