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A cleft lip is a congenital fissure that involves the upper lip. A cleft palate involves the hard or soft palate.
A "cleft lip" affects just the patient's lip, and a "cleft palate" affects the palate, or the roof of your mouth.
Cleft lip and palate can be diagnosed before birth by ultrasound
Congenital fissure of the palate is known as cleft palate. This is a condition with different levels of severity.
Cat lip or the Harelip is a disease called Cleft lip (cheiloschisis) or cleft palate (palatoschisis). However they can occur together as Cleft lip and palate.
no chromosomes are affected.. if so it will be a disorder and a cleft lip and palate is only a defect.
ICD-9-CM diagnosis code 749.21 = Cleft palate with cleft lip; unilateral, complete
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One can find information on cleft lip and palate on various websites like LittleBabyFace and WebMD. Both websites offer a great amount of information about cleft lip and palate.
it can be seen visually
Our son has an Occult submucus cleft palate, he has the 22Q11 or "DiGeorge" syndrome.
About 1 in 700 children are born with a cleft palate and/or a cleft lip.