It can happen just in the lip, it can happen on one side or both sides, and it can happen right through the gums and affect the back side of the soft palate. When you look down the cleft, you’ll see ...

The cleft areas easily become encrusted with milk, which makes them prone to excoriation and infection. A small amount of sterile water can be offered to the infant after each feeding to clean the ...

[15] With a CL, it is imperative that this systematic examination be completed before a feeding, due to the potential ... have a tongue that falls into the cleft and obstructs the airway.

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 ...

Betty Marwick (right) - played by Lisa Ellis - struggles with the news Call The Midwife has been praised by viewers affected by cleft lip and cleft palate after the BBC drama showed a baby boy ...

TV host Wendy Williams has apologised after appearing to mock Joaquin Phoenix for a scar on his upper lip. The US presenter was accused of insulting people with a cleft palate while discussing the ...

In 2006, Valerie Catherine Smith-Orr travelled to the Philippines for a six month research for her studies at the University of Queensland on ‘feeding children with a cleft palate in a ...