Kau: We see about 60 to 80 cleft lip palate births at Children’s Hospital each year and another 60 to 80 adoptions from other countries which we participate in helping. Our team is involved with them ...

Cleft lip and palate treatment in India, from prenatal counseling to advanced surgeries, with a focus on innovation and care.

Cleft lip and cleft palate often happen together ... Cleft care is provided by a multidisciplinary team of different specialists who work together, each focusing on a specific aspect of treatment.

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 ...

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 team of 13 specialists from Germany, Italy, Austria, and Spain is conducting screenings for hundreds of children and ...

The hospital has established a team consisting of a plastic surgeon, dentist, and feeding nurse for cleft lip and cleft palate cases. All the operations are conducted free of charge.

It formed a special team of surgeons and has performed 15 surgeries in the past year. Cleft lip and cleft palate are conditions where openings or splits occur in the upper lip or the roof of the ...

Santhosh’s son was born with a cleft lip and palate, holes in his heart, and he did not have ears as well. Cleft lip and palate is a birth defect that occurs when a baby’s lip or mouth does ...

Gemma is interested in understanding what causes cleft lip/palate and associated outcomes. In particular, she is exploring the role of genetics and what genetics can tell us about environmental risk ...

With 19 years’ experience working with the Newcastle cleft lip and palate team, she has been a key contributor to improving communication outcomes for individuals with cleft lip and palate. Dr Van ...