One of the critical components of treatment for patients with cleft lip and palate is alveolar bone grafting (ABG), which aims to restore the bony support for teeth and improve the overall ...

Sapphira will follow up with the cleft and craniofacial team every year or two. She will need another procedure when she is 8 to 10 years old when she is losing her baby teeth to repair her alveolar ...

A plastic surgeon will repair the baby's cleft lip first, usually when the baby is about 3 months old. This is done with a surgery called cheiloplasty (KY-lo-plass-tee). It's done in the hospital ...

to repair it when they're about 3 months old. This is done in the hospital while the baby is under general anesthesia. If the cleft lip is wide, special procedures like lip adhesion or nasal alveolar ...