A preoperative nerve block may help reduce morphine consumption for pediatric patients undergoing primary cleft palate repair.

As in your situation, a cleft lip may be identified on an ultrasound before a baby is born. But the exact nature of a cleft is often hard to accurately determine using prenatal testing. That means the ...

A cleft palate is a V- or U-shaped gap in the tissue between the mouth and the inside of the nose. It includes variable separation of the muscular soft palate and uvula (the small piece of tissue that ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids born with cleft palate were no more likely than kids in the general population to suffer from hoarseness in a new study of almost 500 children who had undergone palate ...

John Blankenship will have another surgery next summer to close the hole in the roof of his mouth. His family is so grateful ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAVENPORT -- The images new ultrasound technology produces are so detailed, technicians can watch a fetus’ eyes open and close in the womb. Edgerton Women's Health Clinic in Davenport has had 4D ...