How Doctors Repair a Cleft Palate | Step-by-Step Surgery Explained Watch how surgeons carefully repair a cleft palate, restoring normal speech and function for patients born with this condition. 💙 #CleftPalate #CleftPalateRepair #CleftSurgery #MedicalEducation #DoctorLife #PlasticSurgery #PediatricSurgery #SurgicalSkills #MedicalAwareness #HealthEducation #SurgeryVideo #MedicalLearning | MedVision

Princess was born with a cleft lip and cleft palate. When she was just 8 months old, her grandma adopted her as own child because she was abandoned by her mother. Today, she is 17 months old, but looks much younger and is just starting to walk. Princess and her grandmother arrived at our mission site, earlier this month hoping she would be healthy enough to receive surgery. Unfortunately she developed a fever that would not subside, making it unsafe for our medical team to administer anesthesia.

Free Cleft lip and palate successful operation in coordination of Operation Smile Cleft Center for Mindanao #throwback#accomplishment | Vice Mayor James Yap Jr.

9th Free Cleft Lip and Palate Surgical Operation | 2nd Infantry "Jungle Fighter" Division, Philippine Army

Fact about #cleftpalate Causes Cleft lip and cleft palate occur when tissues in the baby's face and mouth don't fuse properly. Normally, the tissues that make up the lip and palate fuse together in the second and third months of pregnancy. But in babies with cleft lip and cleft palate, the fusion never takes place or occurs only part way, leaving an opening (cleft). Researchers believe that most cases of cleft lip and cleft palate are caused by an interaction of genetic and environmental factors