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 ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa are studying the genetics of cleft lips and palates to alleviate the financial and mental stressors of the condition on patients and their families. Clefts ...

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 ...

A new study, led by University College London (UCL) and published in Nature Communications, has revealed for the first time how genetic and environmental factors come together to form cleft lip or ...

082018_Stat-Consult_Image Cleft lip and palate is defined as congenital malformation of the upper lip and/or oral cavity disrupting normal facial structure and oromotor function. cleft lip with or ...

University of Iowa researchers conducted a study using frogs and fish to identify certain human genes are associated with causing cleft lip and/or palate when deleted. Clefting is a malformation in ...

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 ...

MAYWOOD, Ill. -- Children born with cleft lip, cleft palate and other craniofacial disorders face numerous medical challenges beyond appearance. Patients can face serious airway, feeding, speech and ...

Researchers have found a gene that causes cleft lip and palate in mice, according to a paper in the April 26 PNAS. The finding also suggests a causal link between smoking and cleft lip and palate in ...

Cleft lips and cleft palates are among the most common birth defects affecting children in North America. They occur very early in development, usually between 6 and 10 weeks of the pregnancy. A cleft ...