https://www.smiletrain.org/
About Us. Smile Train is the largest cleft-focused organization with a model of true sustainability — providing training, funding, and resources to empower local medical professionals in 75+ countries to provide 100%-free cleft surgery and other forms of essential cleft care in their own communities. Your monthly gift helps guarantee

https://www.operationsmile.org/
We revolutionized cleft surgery globally in . Every year, Operation Smile helps thousands more children living with cleft lip and cleft palate to better breathe, eat, speak and live lives of greater confidence.

https://www.operationsmile.org/press-release/operation-smile-announces-global-strategy-improve-access-safe-surgery
Widely known for providing free surgeries to children who suffer from cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial conditions, Operation Smile is now investing $250 million over the next five years to increase efforts to transfer medical expertise to improve surgical capacity in 40 countries, eradicate the backlog of hard-to-access cleft patients

https://www.freetosmile.org/
One Surgery Rewrites a Child's Story - Free To Smile Foundation provides impoverished kids a second chance at life with cleft lip & cleft palate surgeries. ... Millions of impoverished children around the world suffer from cleft lip/palate deformities. Our ordinary heroes are surgeons willing to pay their own way, do surgeries for free, and

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cleft-palate/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20370990
Cleft palate repair. Various procedures may be used to close the separation and rebuild the roof of the mouth (hard and soft palate), depending on your child's situation. The surgeon makes incisions on both sides of the cleft and repositions the tissue and muscles. The repair is then stitched closed. Ear tube surgery.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/23394-cleft-lip-cleft-palate-surgery
Cleft lip surgery. Cleft lip repair is surgery to fix a split (cleft) in your child's lip. Their surgeon makes a cut (incision) along the edges of the cleft lip extending up into their nose. They use stitches to reapproximate the muscle of your child's upper lip and bring the cut edges of the skin together to shape the upper lip and nostrils.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/cleft-lip-and-cleft-palate
Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Treatment. Both cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries are performed in the hospital under general anesthesia, and usually require a stay of at least one night. Cleft Lip Surgery. For most infants with cleft lip, your child's surgeon can repair the abnormality within the first several months of life.

https://www.chop.edu/treatments/surgical-repair-cleft-lip-and-palate
3 to 6 months. The goal of cleft lip surgery is to repair the separation of the lip. Cleft lip is typically repaired between 3 and 6 months of age. During those first few months, your child is monitored closely for adequate weight gain and nutrition, and to make sure that there are no issues relative to breathing while eating.

https://www.cdc.gov/birth-defects/about/cleft-lip-cleft-palate.html
Cleft lip and cleft palate are thought to be caused by a combination of genes and other factors. CDC research has found some factors that increase the risk of having a baby with an orofacial cleft: Smoking during pregnancy 1 2. Having diabetes before pregnancy (type 1 or 2) 3. Use of certain epilepsy medications during pregnancy 4 5.

https://acpacares.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ACPA_factsheet_SupportforIndividuals.pdf
For more information, or for a referral to a cleft or craniofa-cial team, please contact: American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association 1504 East Franklin Street, Suite 102 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 919.933.9044 www.cleftline.org info@acpa-cpf.org. AMERICAN CLEFT PALATE- CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION.

https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/surgery-for-cleft-lip-and-palate
A cleft palate is a split in the roof of the mouth: the hard palate in the front portion, the soft palate in the back, or both. If a cleft is left untreated, a child may have difficulty eating and speaking. The conditions can also affect the development of other facial features, including the nose, jaw and teeth.

https://www.dukehealth.org/pediatric-treatments/pediatric-plastic-and-reconstructive-surgery/cleft-lip-and-cleft-palate
Cleft palate surgery (palatoplasty) closes the opening in the palate. It brings together and aligns the soft tissue on either side of the cleft, as well as the muscles of the palate that are used to produce speech. GPP may be performed at the same time. Ear tubes are frequently placed during this surgery. Ages 1 to 2.

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https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/all-childrens-hospital/services/cleft-and-craniofacial-program/conditions-we-treat/cleft-lip-and-palate-surgery
Cleft lip surgery is usually performed first, except in rare cases when children are adopted or present to the clinic at an older age. Cleft lip and cleft palate surgery are both performed at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital with our team of dedicated pediatric anesthesiologists. Most patients remain in the hospital for 1-2 days.

https://acpacares.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Preparing-for-Surgery.pdf
CLEFT PALATE SURGERY WHAT IS CLEFT PALATE REPAIR SURGERY? The purpose of cleft palate surgery is to close the opening in the roof of the mouth. This procedure usually takes place between 6 and 18 months of age. For cleft palate surgery, the surgeon cuts and rearranges tissue around the cleft to close the opening.

https://www.operationsmile.org/about-us/about-operation-smile-and-cleft-conditions
A cleft condition is a gap in the mouth that didn't close during the early stages of pregnancy, and this happens more often than you may realize. It is estimated that, worldwide, a child is born every three minutes with a cleft condition — about one in every 500 to 750 births. Sometimes cleft condition can be easy to see because it's an

https://www.umms.org/ummc/health-services/plastic-surgery/services/cleft-lip-palate
For more information about UM Division of Plastic Surgery or to make an appointment, please call 1-800-492-5538 or 410-328-2360 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians). Definitions, causes, treatments and possible complications regarding cleft lip and cleft palate reconstructive surgery.

https://wa.kaiserpermanente.org/kbase/topic.jhtml?docId=aa111333
Topic Overview. Often, several doctors and other health professionals will help care for a child with cleft lip and/or cleft palate . The team may include primary care health professionals, surgeons, dentists and orthodontists, and a variety of therapists. The staff at most large hospitals can help you to know who you need to see and when. They

https://childrenswi.org/medical-care/plastic-surgery/craniofacial-disorder-conditions/cleft-lip-and-palate-program/cleft-lip-and-palate-surgery
Cleft palate repairs. We usually repair cleft palates between the ages of 9 and 18 months (before the age of 2). Cleft palate repair is a more complicated surgery than cleft lip repair. Therefore, we do it when your baby is bigger and better able to tolerate the surgery. Your child's physician will determine the best time for the surgery.

https://www.myface.org/craniofacial-conditions/cleft-lip-and-or-palate/treatments-procedures/
Surgical Lip Adhesion. In cases of wide or bilateral cleft lip, lip adhesion may be performed between 6 weeks and 3 months of age as the first step in a two-stage approach to lip repair. During the procedure, the surgeon stitches the two sides of the cleft together. The purpose of the lip adhesion is to reduce the tension on the final repair

https://www.smiletrain.org/medical-professionals/training-programs
We're working to ensure that surgeons and trainees around the globe have access to the most advanced, effective cleft surgery training tools available today. Our Simulare Cleft Lip and Palate 3D-printed simulators provide hyper-realistic models for cleft surgical training, leading to safer, higher-quality surgery for every patient, every time.

https://www.lvhn.org/treatments/cleft-lip-and-cleft-palate-surgery
A cleft palate is a gap, or opening, in the roof of the mouth. A baby may have a cleft in the front (hard) palate, back (soft) palate or both palates. During cleft palate surgery, our skilled plastic surgeons close the opening in the roof of the mouth. For children, this surgery typically takes place within the first 18 months of a child's life.

http://cleft.org/care.aspx
After Cleft Palate Repair. After Cleft Lip Repair. After surgery, your child will have an IV until he/she is able to take fluids well by mouth. He/she will generally be offered the breast, bottle, cup in the recovery area and starting with clear liquids. Once he/she is tolerating small amounts well, he/she will be able to be gradually increased

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-65151-9
Our sample included 814 non-syndromic cleft lip with or without palate (NSCL/P), 205 non-syndromic cleft palate only (NSCPO), and 2150 unrelated control children from Nigeria, Ghana, and Ethiopia.