Around one in 700 babies worldwide are born with a cleft lip or palate. However, many parents and carers have little idea of how clefts affect children’s ability to make speech sounds and learn ...

Cleft sentences are used to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence and to emphasise what we want to say by introducing it or building up to it with a kind of relative clause.

Cleft lip is usually detected around 18-22 weeks of pregnancy because ultrasound provides a good view of a fetus’ face. If there is a cleft lip, sometimes cleft palate is suspected at that same ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate (CL/CP) are the most commonly occurring craniofacial birth defects. Although some CL/CPs are detected on prenatal ultrasound, the majority are immediately recognized in ...

Operation 100 will train 100 surgical teams across 100 hospitals, equipping them with skills, equipment and health care ...

As part of efforts towards providing lasting medical solutions to the sickness of Cleft Lip & Palate which is defined as openings, splits, separations in the the upper lip or palate or tissues of the ...

Each year around 1000 children are born with cleft lip and/or palate in the United Kingdom. Many require long term multi-disciplinary care. Twenty years ago, children with cleft lip and/or palate were ...

This is the heart-warming moment a baby said her first word on camera - after her parents feared she wouldn't be able to speak due to a cleft palate.

The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital is calling for greater collaborations to increase cleft palate surgeries, following a series of successful procedures performed by the National Plastic and ...

Award-winning designer partners with Operation Smile to turn kiss imprints into 23-carat gold masterpieces, with each purchase funding cleft ...