“A cleft lip can be accompanied by a cleft of the palate, which is a gap in the roof of the mouth due to a flaw in development in which the two sides of the palate fail to fuse at the midline.

Commonly, an isolated cleft lip (CL) is limited to the upper lip on either side of the philtrum (midline groove). Upper lip clefts can be unilateral or bilateral. A rare CL variant is a median ...

I’m pregnant with my second child. During the 20-week anatomy scan, my obstetrician detected my baby has a cleft lip. Does ...

A cleft occurs when certain midline soft tissues do not fuse together during the development of the foetus. Clefts can involve the lip, the roof of the mouth, and the soft tissue in the back of ...

Children born with these conditions often face childhood malnutrition and endure a lifetime of stigma and speech difficulties ...

Physical Assessment of the Infant With Cleft Lip and/or Palate . Linda Merritt, RNC, MSN. Disclosures. ... The mouth should be in the midline of the face and appear symmetrical in shape and movement.

Like mechanics fixing a faulty engine, Youssef A. Kousa, M.S., D.O., Ph.D., says researchers will not be able to remedy problems related to IRF6, a gene implicated in cleft palate, until they ...