Babies born with a cleft lip or cleft palate, or both, will face some additional challenges in the early years of their lives, and so will their parents. Babies with clefts need to have surgery, learn ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’m pregnant with my second child. During the 20-week anatomy scan, my obstetrician detected my baby has a cleft lip. Does this mean my baby also has a cleft palate? How and when is ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal development, can result in babies with facial differences such as a cleft lip or ...

A patient at Providence Sacred Heart Children's Hospital has been named a 2026 Children’s Miracle Network National Champion.

Chelsea Sommer wants every child born with cleft palate to receive the care they deserve. The bilingual speech-language pathologist knows it can be challenging to obtain treatment for this complex ...

A photo of baby Sutton has garnered more than 728,000 likes so far. When photographer Shannon Morton shared a baby photo to her business's Facebook page, she had no idea that it would go viral. "It ...

July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of cleft lip and palate defects. About 6,000 to 8,000 babies are born in the United States with ...

Smile Train, a global non-profit organisation focused on cleft care, has trained 12 speech and language professionals at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).

Doctor engaging Sylvia Krian and his wife on how to feed the baby as they plan for corrective surgery.[Courtesy] Children born with cleft lip and palate face difficulties while suckling, and this is ...

Dr. Christopher Dobson, a pediatric anesthesiologist, volunteers with organizations that provide cleft lip and palate surgery to underprivileged children. Cleft lip and palate surgery is a ...