Lauren Onishi wants others to realize clefts are more than a cosmetic concern. Over the last 20 years, cleft lip and palate awareness has grown, spurred in part by TV commercials from the nonprofit ...

A photo of baby Sutton has garnered more than 728,000 likes so far. When photographer Shannon Morton shared a baby photo to her business's Facebook page, she had no idea that it would go viral. "It ...

A Parow mother praises the Smile Foundation and medical team after her son, Stephen, born with a cleft lip, undergoes ...

WHITTIER – A renowned plastic surgeon is providing his expertise in a remote part of the world. Dr. Alexander Sinclair, a surgeon who has offices in Whittier and Beverly Hills, will travel more than 7 ...

Normally as the baby develops in the womb, the tissues that eventually form the upper lip and palate grow from both sides and fuse or join in the middle to give the final continuity and shape to the ...

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 ...

Like mechanics fixing a faulty engine, an expert says researchers will not be able to remedy problems related to IRF6, a gene implicated in cleft palate, until they better understand how the gene ...

University of Iowa researchers conducted a study using frogs and fish to identify certain human genes are associated with causing cleft lip and/or palate when deleted. Clefting is a malformation in ...

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found a new mechanism that explains why a certain gene mutation causes craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS), a disorder that causes cleft palate and ...

Unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) patients who had undergone orthodontic treatment in the NHS consultant-led service had a good standard of orthodontic care. This means PAR reduction could be ...

Over the last 20 years, cleft lip and palate awareness has grown, spurred in part by TV commercials from the nonprofit Smile Train, which bills itself as "the world's largest cleft charity," and ...

Cleft lip or palate affects one in 700 babies in the United States and the United Kingdom. The reason for this defect lies in defects normal development of the face within the mother’s womb. The exact ...