A mum-of-two left her career in banking to take on midwifery after her little boy was born with a cleft palate. Nicole Stirrat's youngest son, Alex, was born with a cleft palate and Pierre Robin ...

Nicole shared: "Alex has had a lot of operations, including a cleft palate repair when he was just nine months old, surgery for grommets, and a partial adenoidectomy. These procedures were needed ...

Tony Markus, consultant maxillofacial surgeon, is leader of the cleft team at Poole Hospital. he says: While there is a wide spectrum of severity of clefts of either lip, palate or both ...

July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of cleft lip and palate defects ... As clinicians, we don’t repair the bony components of the ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects, occurring in about one in 1,050 births in the United States. These defects, which appear when the tissues that form the lip or ...

Next, children will have surgery to repair the cleft and close the gap. Children will usually have surgery for a cleft lip between 3 and 6 months and for a cleft palate between 6 and 12 months.

Each year plastic and reconstructive surgeons improve the lives of millions of patients with congenital malformations (such as cleft lip and cleft palate), disfiguring wounds, animal bites, and ...