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74The Smile Train: Helping Children With Cleft Lips
The Smile Train is a rare type of charity; they specialize in providing free cleft/palate repair surgery for children in the world's poorest countries, and they do it with only a handful of employees. Their...
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64About Cleft Palate
Cleft lip and cleft palate, which can also occur together as cleft lip and palate are variations of a type of clefting congenital deformity caused by abnormal facial development during gestation. This type of...
76Your Child has a Cleft Lip Now What?
Most parents learn about their child having a cleft lip or palate through ultrasounds at the obstetricians office. We were not that lucky. Our youngest child Preston was born with a bilateral cleft lip...
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64How to help your grieving friend
The phone rings. It is the call you've been dreading. Your friend tells you that her ill child has finally succumed to his illness. She is devastated. She has never felt such pain in her life. She feels like...
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When a foetus is developing inside the womb there is a point in this developing process that involves the roof of the mouth fusing together. Sometimes this process does'nt go to plan, and the fusing of the...
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64Dealing with stares and your cleft child
Some parents of cleft children do not take them in public before their first repair surgery, because they, the parent, become self conscience of their child's appearance and do not wish to deal with the stares...
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64Trisomy 13 Syndrome
Trisomy 13 syndrome : Trisomy 13 syndrome is also known as Patau Syndrome is syndrome presented with polydacttyly ( more than 5 fingers ), cardiac malformations, cleft lip and palate, micropthalmia and...
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