In an initiative aimed at improving the lives of children with congenital disabilities, Smile Train and KGMT Multispecialty ...

Baby Everett has been cared for by the Alberta Children’s Hospital since before he was even born. At the 20-week ultrasound, ...

Roughly one in 700 children are born with a cleft lip and/or palate, and approximately every three minutes, a baby enters the world with this condition. Yet, the topic often goes unspoken, leaving ...

The cleft areas easily become encrusted with milk, which makes them prone to excoriation and infection. A small amount of sterile water can be offered to the infant after each feeding to clean the ...

[15] With a CL, it is imperative that this systematic examination be completed before a feeding, due to the potential ... have a tongue that falls into the cleft and obstructs the airway.

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 ...