Cleft lip and/or palate are the most common birth defects of the mouth. A cleft lip occurs when the two structures or processes that make up the lip do not completely fuse before birth. According ...

Kau: Cleft diagnosis begins in utero. You can look at a pre-natal diagnosis and see the cleft lip on an ultrasound ... the back side of the soft palate. When you look down the cleft, you’ll see right ...

Cleft palates are hard to detect on an ultrasound scan. “If there's a cleft lip diagnosed ... “When the soft palate is in a raised position, the passage to the nose is closed off and air ...

The average elapsed time from the ultrasound ... fetal anomaly, it was also experienced when a correctable problem was detected. One participant recounted hearing the diagnosis of cleft palate and ...