Cleft Palate and Cleft Lip: Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment

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Cleft Palate and Cleft Lip
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Cleft Palate and Cleft Lip

• Cleft lip and cleft palate are maxillofacial
  disorders related to the jaws and face. Cleft lip
  appears when there is a split or opening in the
  lip. The split may vary in size to connect the
  upper lip and nose. A cleft palate appears when
  the babys upper lip is not developing inside the
  mothers womb. The palate consists of two parts,
  hard palate and soft palate. The soft palate is
  located inside the mouth and is made up of soft
  tissue. The hard palate is the bony portion,
  which is visible due to absence of the upper lip.
  Cleft palate and lip is the most common birth
  condition there are more than 1 million cases per
  in India. 

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Causes of cleft palate and lip 

• The exact cause of Cleft Palate and lip is not
  known. However, doctors say that genetic and
  environmental factors may lead to the development
  of this disorder. For example, the baby may have
  inherited a gene that makes a cleft palate and
  lip.
• Mothers unhealthy habits during
  the pregnancy also increase the risk of child
  developing this disease. Factors such as smoking,
  drinking alcohol, diabetes, doing drugs, lack of
  essential proteins and vitamins in the diet, will
  have a direct effect on a childs health.

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Symptoms

• When you try to feed milk to the baby, it may
  come out of his mouth, because barricading
  between the mouth and the nose is not yet fully
  developed.
• Children with cleft also have the possibility of
  developing dental problems, such as missing teeth
  or absence of teeth.
• Feeding problems, speech impairment and ear
  infections are some other common symptoms from
  which child may through due to the
  non-development of the upper lip.

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Diagnosis of cleft palate and lip 

• Ultrasound is used to diagnose Cleft palate and
  lip, when the child is still inside the womb. The
  ultrasound creates the image of the baby and let
  doctor discover if there is any other abnormality
  in the baby.

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Treatments

• The treatment of Cleft palate and lip depends
  upon the seriousness of the problem. The
  treatment of Cleft palate and lip generally,
  involves the surgeryto close the opening and
  re-build the lip. Surgery for repairing the
  cleft lip must be performed within 12 months of
  age and surgery of cleft palate by the age of 18
  months. Follow up surgery should be done between
  the age of two and late teen years. Treatment
  of Cleft palate and lip may involve the team of
  doctors and experts, including 
• ENT Specialist
• Oral Surgeon
• Speech therapist
• Paediatricians
• Paediatric Dentist

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