When Peter was born six years ago, his mother abandoned him in the very hospital where she gave birth in Ghana’s southern Ashanti region. He came out of her womb with a gaping split in his face from ...

Cleft lip and palate are relatively common deformities, but only a few hundred reconstructive surgeons in the United States work with such patients. John A. Girotto, MD, not only cares for children ...

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 ...

For Denver Carranza, undergoing surgery as a child was a turning point in his life—but it was not the end of his journey. Born with bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, Carranza underwent his first ...

Every three minutes, a child with a cleft lip or cleft palate is born somewhere in the world. While surgery can repair this, the real measure of success is a culmination of a very long journey that ...

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 ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Every parent dreams of having a healthy baby. According to the March of Dimes, nearly 7,000 babies are born every year in this country with a birth defect in the lip or tongue.

Cleft lip and palate repair encompasses a spectrum of surgical and non-surgical interventions designed to restore form and function to the orofacial region. Primary surgical repair typically occurs ...

A special traveling gallery of portraits, each of a child with a cleft lip or cleft palate made its way to Grand Rapids ...

Jonathan Crooks' son Eli has had two surgeries to close his lip and repair his hard palate but needs another operation before ...

Dogs, like people, can be born with cleft palates. Some die from pneumonia or malnourishment. Some with the defect, which is basically a hole in the mouth, are euthanized. But the same techniques that ...