July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month, which aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of cleft lip and palate defects. About 6,000 to 8,000 babies are born ... and about 70 percent ...

Around one in 700 babies worldwide are born with a cleft lip or palate. However ... multi-disciplinary teams that help children, young people and adults born with a cleft,” says Catrina.

Many would consider being born with a cleft lip and palate a setback that could have ... part of WebMD’s contributor program, which lets people and organizations outside of WebMD submit articles ...