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Cleft Lip and/or Palate

Background

A cleft is a split in the upper lip or palate (roof of the mouth). A cleft lip and/or palate occur when there is a partial or total failure of the lip and/or palate to fuse during the early stages of pregnancy. Clefts may affect the lip (on one or both sides), the palate, or both. Cleft lip and/or palate affects around 1 in 700 hundred babies born in the UK.

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family. Approved November 1991 by Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated December 2011 by Mr B Sommerlad, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Cleft Lip and Palate Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

 

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