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 ...

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 ...

In some children, cleft palate occurs in combination with other conditions or birth defects. When this happens, there may be a genetic cause for all of the conditions. Some of those include ...

Image Credit: PeopleImages.com - Yuri A/Shutterstock.com Cleft palate is a congenital disability that occurs in one in every ...

While lip prints aren’t typically used in forensics to nail criminals, they can offer clues to a person’s health—particularly his or her genetic predisposition to cleft lip or palate ...