This symptom of smoking is painless but can lead to discoloration and scar tissue on the top of your mouth. Thanks to decades of research, we know that smoking and tobacco use can seriously affect our ...

Cleft lip can affect one or both sides of the upper lip. Cleft lip and cleft palate commonly occur as isolated birth defects, but they're also associated with more than 300 known genetic conditions.

For every 700 babies born in India, one of them is born with a cleft lip or/and palate. With over 35,000 plus cleft cases annually, oral and facial clefts are amongst one the most common and ...

It's estimated that every three minutes, somewhere in the world a baby is born with a cleft lip or palate, making it one of the most common birth defects. Eighteen-year-old Emma Johnston was born with ...

AS part of moves to improve the care for children born with cleft lip and palate, no less than six surgeons are to specialise in cleft care every year from 2020 across Nigeria and entire West Africa.

A section of medics in Uganda has teamed up with their counterparts from Smile Train, an International children’s charity to offer free surgery to needy Ugandans battling cleft lifts and palates ...

Call The Midwife viewers affected by cleft lip and cleft palate have praised the programme for raising awareness of the condition. In Sunday night’s episode of the BBC show a baby boy was born with a ...

Often medical conditions will display symptoms related to the area of the body affected. But in other cases, the signs could seem entirely unrelated. The mouth is one part of the body that can ...

Trichy: Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) in Trichy shows the way by offering free cleft care including surgeries for children born with the defect. It formed a special team of ...