Birth defects or congenital anomalies are a serious global health challenge, causing death or lifelong difficulties for millions of children each year. In Zimbabwe, the situation is no different.

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She will continuing raising money for Smile Train and sharing the charity's aim to provide free life-changing surgery to children ... or it can go through the lip into the nose. Children with a cleft ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate can both be treated via surgery, and Hanratty said she was “very, very excited that we’re in such beautiful, wonderful hands,” referring to her doctors.

Stanford Medicine Otolaryngology - Head & Neck surgery. Anatomy of the Sinuses ... National Library of Medicine. Cleft lip and palate repair. Harvard Medical School. Broken nose (nasal fracture).

She had heard about a cleft lip and palate camp offering surgery free of charge by a Canadian medical team called Operation Rainbow Canada. But the help she needed wasn’t for her child.

Hanratty also acknowledged the potential “difficulties” that could arise from her baby’s cleft lip and resulting surgery ... of where it is in the palate, if it is in the palate.” ...

A study of cleft palate in horses shows that while it leads to euthanasia in half of affected horses, the condition is, thankfully, extremely rare. Older animals with cleft palates may have persistent ...

“I was born with a cleft lip and palate,” Gould said ... stitch their dolls to match their own stitches before or after surgery. But Stitches by Charlotte is far from Gould’s only ...

During surgery, the nasal floor, which is invaginated into the ... Tomographic pharyngeal dimensions in individuals with unilateral cleft lip/palate and class III malocclusion are reduced when ...

Birth defects are responsible for the death of an estimated 295 000 new-borns each year during the first 28 days of life. For ...

The birth of a child with a cleft lip or palate, or both, can be very upsetting, especially as not all families can afford the high treatment costs. Now, Swiss researchers have developed a low ...