Cleft Lip and Palate

Oral-facial clefts are birth defects in which the tissues of the mouth or lip don't form properly during foetal development. Both cleft lip and cleft palate are treatable birth defects, and most children born with either or both of these conditions can have reconstructive surgery while they're still infants to correct the defect and significantly improve their facial appearance.

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Reviewed January 2012

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Title:   Cleft lip and palate
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   A cleft lip affects a baby's and child's appearance, while a cleft palate will affect feeding....
Date:   Feb 2012
Title:   Cleft palate and cleft lip
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   A cleft is a birth defect caused by the failure of the mouth parts to fuse or join up during early fetal development. The cause is unknown, although genetic factors play a role in a small proportion of cases. Surgery can repair most clefts so that appearance and speech develop normally.
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Cleft lip and cleft palate
Publisher:   Raising Children Network (RCN)
Description:   Identifying and treating cleft lip and cleft palate in young children.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Secondary bone grafting for alveolar cleft in children with cleft lip or cleft lip and palate
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Alveolar cleft is a bony defect in the gum of the mouth, which affects approximately 75% of cleft lip or cleft lip and palate patients. Failure to repair this defect may give rise to many problems. Although alveolar bone grafting has been widely accepte...
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Feeding interventions for growth and development in infants with cleft lip, cleft palate or cleft lip and palate
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cleft lip and cleft palate (the roof of the mouth) are common defects. The severity of the cleft (opening) varies and it can occur on one (unilateral) or both sides (bilateral). It can be difficult to feed babies enough nutritious food when they have th...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Scheme
Publisher:   Medicare Australia
Description:   The Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Scheme helps families to meet treatment costs for specialised services for cleft lip and cleft palate conditions.
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Electropalatography for articulation disorders associated with cleft palate
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A cleft palate means that during the early stages of pregnancy, the baby's roof of the mouth does not join in the normal way. The lip is sometimes cleft as well as the palate. Children who are born with a cleft lip or palate usually have corrective su...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Interventions for the management of submucous cleft palate
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cleft palate (a split in the roof of the mouth) is a common congenital anomaly which affects approximately 1 in 600 people. Submucous cleft palate (SMCP) is a small subgroup of cleft palate and most of the affected people are asymptomatic. However, some...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Breastfeeding babies with clefts of lip and/or palate
Publisher:   Australian Breastfeeding Association
Description:   Breastfeeding and breastmilk are important for babies. You probably already know this and you may be worried about how to provide breastmilk if your baby has a cleft of the lip and/or palate. The most important thing to know is that even if your baby cannot breastfeed at first, you can still feed your baby your own breastmilk.
Date:   Jan 2006

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