The reason to repair the soft palate at that age is that's when the speech starts developing and not repairing it could lead to development of abnormal sounds that are very hard to correct later on.

A technique using umbilical cord blood stem cells could be a promising new approach for repair of cleft palate in infants, reports a paper in The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, published in the ...

Nowadays, individuals born with cleft palate can get surgery to fix the condition, which occurs when the roof of the mouth, known as the hard palate, doesn't completely close during gestation. The ...

The disorder, a subset of cleft palate, affects one in 8,500 live human births and is characterized by a cleft palate, shortened lower jaw and displacement of the tongue base. Cleft palate condition ...