All of this made me who I am today, stronger and confident. I now realise I was using these things to deal with having a cleft, and I was out of control – my poor parents. I found it really hard ...

Cri du Chat syndrome (French for "cat cry") is a rare chromosomal disorder caused by missing or deleted portions of chromosome 5. Infants who are born with the syndrome often have a high-pitched cry ...

A cleft chin, also called a booty chin, is not a dangerous health condition. Some people with a cleft chin seek solutions for removing the crease in their chin for aesthetic purposes. Everyone has ...

The Department of Plastic Surgery at JIPMER, through the Smile Train Cleft Project, organised a nurses mentorship programme on rendering comprehensive cleft care through feeding and nutrition.

The White House hit back at recent news reports detailing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's reported involvement in a second Signal group chat where he discussed military strikes on Yemen as a ...

The incision will be made in the middle of the intergluteal cleft (butt crack) to prevent any sign of scar exposure when wearing a bikini. The surgeons will make a small incision at the butt crack.

Biologists have discovered that disruptions in transfer RNA function can lead to the development of cleft lip and cleft palate. Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects ...

Genetic variants Cleft lip and cleft palate, also known as orofacial clefts, can be caused by genetic mutations, but in many cases, there is no known genetic cause. "The mechanism for the ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects, occurring in about one in 1,050 births in the United States. These defects, which appear when the tissues that form the lip or ...

The undersized jaw pushes the tongue back and may keep the palate from closing, creating a cleft palate. Pierre Robin is one of the most common conditions associated with micrognathia, occurring ...

Based on the existing evidence, we hypothesize that oral cleft-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are involved in the normal range of human face development. Therefore, this study aimed ...

Additionally, many craniofacial syndromes and conditions such as cleft lip and cleft palate, syndromic craniosynostosis (Apert, Crouzon, Pfeiffer, Muenke, Saethre-Chotzen, etc.), Hemifacial microsomia ...