Over the last 20 years, cleft lip and palate awareness has grown, spurred in part by TV commercials from the nonprofit Smile Train, which bills itself as "the world's largest cleft charity," and ...

Heborn Medical Centre (HMC), a South Korean non-profit medical organisation, has partnered with doctors from Canada to provide free treatment for patients with cleft lips, cleft palates and scars.

Boyers said she learned during her 20-week ultrasound that Bentley would be born with a cleft lip. The 2-year-old has had two surgeries, including one to fully close the lip. Popular Reads ...

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.

Inspired Life Girl with cleft lip adopts dog with same difference: ‘There’s just a bond’ “They love that the puppies look like them,” said Lindsay Weisman, founder of Cleft Rescue Unit.

A nine-week-old Texas tot with a cleft lip has gone viral after her parents posted the child's cherub-style baby portraits online. Facebook/Gavin Gardner This baby’s portraits are angelic. A ...

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 cleft occurs when certain structures don’t fuse together during fetal development. Clefts can involve the lip and/or the roof of the mouth, which is made up of both hard and soft palate.