Diana Zubiri recently shared the tough journey of raising her son, King, born with a cleft lip and palate. The celebrity mom ...

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 ...

A cleft palate is a V- or U-shaped gap in the tissue between the mouth and the inside of the nose. It includes variable ...

“If a cleft lip or palate does not show up on a scan, it is often diagnosed during the physical exam done after birth”. “No one knows exactly what causes a cleft. It's a combination of ...

The patterns on a person’s lips might be genetically linked to clefts and other orofacial disorders. A repaired cleft lip shows a whorled pattern. Image by MARY L. MARAZITA, CENTER FOR ...