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 ...

Among infants with isolated cleft palate, whether primary surgery at 6 months of age is more beneficial than surgery at 12 months of age with respect to speech outcomes, hearing outcomes, dentofacial ...

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 ...

Often, cleft lip can be detected through ultrasound, but families need to wait a few months before their babies can have the reparative surgery. Dr. Barbu Gociman is a facial plastic surgeon who ...

Children of non-White racial/ethnic backgrounds experience significant disparities in access to and outcomes of surgery to repair cleft lip, reports a study in the November issue of Plastic and ...

A combination of two established surgical techniques provides good outcomes in repair of cleft palate in infants, reports a study in the July issue of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. "Based on our ...