February 24, 2023 – Plastic surgery procedures performed to correct cleft lip and palate deformities in infants and children are economically undervalued, relative to pediatric craniofacial procedures ...

Every three minutes, a child somewhere in the world is born with a cleft lip or cleft palate. The condition is medically correctable, often through a single surgery. Yet for many children, ...

Plastic surgery procedures performed to correct cleft lip and palate deformities in infants and children are economically undervalued, relative to pediatric craniofacial procedures, concludes an ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. When Stephanie Santana was five months ...

Comprehensive cleft care for children in India is driven by the non-profit private model while government has achieved little ...

Seven-month-old Adnan Saleh had just come out of surgery to fix a cleft lip. But suddenly his newly repaired mouth was filling with blood. The post-op nurses rushed to make sure he didn't choke.

If your child has a cleft lip or cleft palate, the surgeries they need will depend their age and the severity of the cleft. The following is a general timeline of procedures, but keep in mind that ...

A Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, RSUTH, Dr. Otto Nimi Aria, has called on ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 40 percent of patients would benefit from having their cleft lip repair surgery in an ambulatory surgical center (ASC), instead of a ...

Brody Shain was born with a severe bilateral cleft lip and palate, plus a birth defect that caused his brain tissue to grow through his skull NBC DFW/YouTube Brody Shain, 11 months, was born with ...