John Blankenship will have another surgery next summer to close the hole in the roof of his mouth. His family is so grateful ...

In 2011, Jeremy Shipp and his wife welcomed their son Henry, who was born with a cleft lip and cleft palate. Navigating their child through surgeries to repair the split in his upper lip and the roof ...

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. Share on ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: 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 ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal development, can result in babies with facial differences such as a cleft lip or ...

A new study, led by University College London (UCL) and published in Nature Communications, has revealed for the first time how genetic and environmental factors come together to form cleft lip or ...

If your child has a cleft lip or cleft palate, the surgeries they need will depend their age and the severity of the cleft. The following is a general timeline of procedures, but keep in mind that ...

Cleft lip and palate is one of the most common congenital malformations. Its causes are mainly genetic. However, it is still largely unknown exactly which genes are affected. An international study ...

Seven-month-old Adnan Saleh had just come out of surgery to fix a cleft lip. But suddenly his newly repaired mouth was filling with blood. The post-op nurses rushed to make sure he didn't choke.