As many as one in 700 children is born with a cleft lip or cleft palate. Often this can be a number of problems including glue ear, crooked teeth and hearing loss. The good news is that almost all children go on to have successful corrective surgery.
How to Develop the gaps
Columns start holes about six weeks of pregnancy and the shape of the palate, cleft lip or gum. For reasons that are unknown, these parts should not be linked together to do it in a smallNumber of child development.
The causes are unknown, but some studies suggest that smoking during pregnancy is associated with the condition.
Being an ultrasound, 18 weeks of pregnancy when you pick up about half of the lip and palate, but not diagnosed until after birth.
Feeding your baby
Children are born with cleft palate often have difficulty in sucking. There is a special soft-bottle, which will help you, ask your pharmacist for more details. Babieswith a cleft lip and are usually able to supply enough.
Treatment
A cleft lip is usually repaired by surgery in the first three months. A cleft palate is usually done at about the age of 6-9 months. In both cases, the treatment is effective and children going to lead a normal life. However, there is usually some form of scars and baby's nose is a little 'irregular.
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