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Shriners Children’s provides comprehensive multidisciplinary team care with craniofacial surgery and supportive treatments shaped by the latest research.

Even though facial clefts are one of the most common birth differences in the U.S., parents may struggle to find specialized medical professionals to care for a child with cleft palate or cleft lip and palate. Working closely with young patients and their families, our goal is to repair and restore each child physically, psychologically and socially. We offer facial and dental imaging services and even 3D surgical planning for more complex surgeries.

A cleft palate occurs when the tissues that form the roof of the mouth don’t join together before birth. The opening can be repaired with reconstructive plastic surgery.

The effects of cleft palate run much deeper, causing functional changes in a child’s breathing, hearing, speaking and eating. With our multidisciplinary approach, we provide necessary and related evaluations and therapies, in multiple appointments on the same day. We focus on each child’s total health and well-being with services that also support self-esteem and your child's emotional health.

Specific treatments and services may vary by location. Please contact a specific location for more information.

Stages of Cleft Palate (cleft lip/palate) Repair:

Surgeons guide families to procedures and surgical approaches to help patients’ physical health, while creating the best possible appearance. Children may require 8 to 9 surgeries to correct the mouth, jaw and nose as they grow into adulthood. Here is an overview of what to expect.

Age	Surgery	Comments
2 - 4 Months	Cleft Lip Repair	Ear exams/tubes
6 - 12 Months	Cleft Palate Repair	Ear exams/tubes
3 - 6 Years	Pharyngeal(throat)/Soft Palate Surgery	Improve speech where necessary
5 - 7 Years	Cleft Nose Surgery	If necessary
6 - 9 Years	Bone (hip) Graft to Gum	If child does not have enough bone for teeth to come in
18 - 19 Years	Facial Skeletal Surgery	If upper jaw does not grow in proper relation to lower jaw
18 - 19 Years	Further Bone Graft/Dental Implant	For patients missing teeth at cleft location
14 - 18 Years	Cleft Rhinoplasty (nose surgery)	Almost every child will need final corrections after development. Performed earlier in patients not requiring jaw surgery.

Children born with cleft palate will need to be followed from infancy through their teenage years. Shriners Children’s craniofacial specialists can provide the right care at the right time to give your child the best outcome.

Parents may feel overwhelmed by information but our teams will guide you step by step. Read on to learn more about the cause of cleft palate and what to expect, organized by your child's age.

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Cleft Lip and Palate & Craniofacial Care at Shriners Children's

Facial clefts are the number one craniofacial birth defect addressed by our patient and family-centered teams, led by our board-certified plastic surgeons. The cleft teams at Shriners Children's understand that the repercussions of cleft lip and cleft palate often run much deeper – affecting breathing, hearing, speaking and eating. It is common for self-esteem and emotional health to be impacted as well.

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Fran Farley:

Shriners Children's is an internationally recognized leader in treating cleft lip, cleft palate, and other craniofacial anomalies. Our family-centered approach celebrates the journey of each and every patient, inviting the family to collaborate with specialists, crafting the best treatment plan for their child. We are committed to excellence with a dedication to medical and clinical research that helps provide the latest technology and treatment options for patients.

Eric Liao:

The cornerstone of cleft care is really the two parts of multidisciplinary care and longitudinal care. I think Shriner's, given its history and infrastructure and tradition of taking care of complex pediatric disorders, is really good at both of those things. When a family comes, it's a very family-centered experience where the family will meet every specialist. The focus then is to give the patient the best advice and best surgical planning going forward. The family will meet a plastic surgeon that was specialized to the repair of the lip and palate. For example, the oral maxillofacial surgeon that will deal with bone grafting and the orthodontist. In addition to the physicians and surgeons, the patient will also meet a speech therapist, nutritionist, social workers, pediatricians, if necessary, and the sociologists. Really unique to have all the specialists here in one day for that visit.

Fran Farley:

Shriners Children's understands that cleft lip and cleft palate, as well as other craniofacial conditions present unique characteristics and challenges.

Jennifer Woerner:

Cleft lip and palate in this country runs about one in six to 700 live birth. It's usually a random occurrence. We don't know why it happens necessarily. I think when they come in prenatally and they hear that, they learn that it's really nothing that they've done or anything they could have prevented. It's just something random that happened and now they're here as a part of our family to help them take care of it. We see children from all ages, newborn all the way up until about 18 years of age, when they go to college. I tell all our patients and our families that if you have a child who is born with a cleft, they're part of my family till they go to college. I can't keep them after that, but at least till 18 they're mine.

Fran Farley:

Each child is met with respect, compassion, and a forward looking approach that supports the best quality of life for the child, by achieving the best possible medical outcome. I encourage parents and caregivers to explore the treatment options Shriner's Children's offers. Learn about our innovative approach to medicine and our internationally recognized doctors. I truly believe there isn't a healthcare system out there like ours.

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From our first visit, the hospital staff treated Calvin like royalty, answered all our questions and gave us a comprehensive plan for proceeding with treatment. We love the entire cleft team.
Alaina, Chicago

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Types and Cause of Cleft Palate

The cleft may be in the baby’s hard or soft palate or both. It may occur by itself or with a cleft lip. It can be unilateral (one side of the palate) or bilateral (both sides of the palate).

Cleft palate can be caused by environmental factors and/or genetics, or as part of a genetic syndrome. It may be diagnosed during routine ultrasounds or discovered after a baby is born.

A less common type, submucous cleft (often occurs with bifid uvula), may not be diagnosed until later in life. If a child has difficulty feeding and swallowing, chronic ear issues, and air comes through the nose when speaking, our team can provide an evaluation.

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Care in Baby’s First Year

The first year of life will involve lots of appointments and one or more surgeries for a baby born with cleft palate or cleft lip/palate. The Shriners Children’s teams work together to combine surgical procedures on the same day to reduce the amount of anesthesia and recovery time for the child.

Right after birth:

Parents should receive special instruction on feeding a baby with a cleft palate. Infants with a cleft do not have normal suction in their mouth. Parents may receive special bottles or nipples. Breastfeeding may require supplemental pumped milk or formula. Our speech language pathologists are trained in infant feeding and can provide more information.

2 to 3 Months:

If the child also has a cleft lip, the surgeon will repair the cleft lip. We offer DynaCleft taping and nasal elevators for infants. These mold the upper lip and nose before surgery, which helps the surgeon perform a more effective repair. An otolaryngologist may also place ear tubes on the same surgical day.

After surgery, babies wear soft elbow immobilizers to discourage them from touching their face, and have a liquid diet.

6 to 12 Months:

The repair is completed by 1 year of age, before the child’s first spoken words. At the time of the cleft repair, tubes may be placed in the child’s ears to help reduce ear infections and maximize hearing sensitivity. After surgery, babies may need over-the-counter pain medicine, and will have a liquid, and then a soft food, diet. The stitches in the baby’s mouth will dissolve on their own. Patients see the surgeon and speech therapist one month after surgery.

Babies born with Pierre Robin sequence may need to wait slightly longer for their repair to first manage airway issues.

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Cleft Palate Care in Childhood

Your child will likely see the full team of specialists once or twice per year. Each child’s speech development is routinely assessed by speech language pathologists.

If speech therapy alone does not help a child speak clearly, pharyngeal/soft palate surgery, typically between 3 and 6 years old, can improve the function of the soft palate which helps the child pronounce words correctly and corrects nasal-sounding speech. This surgery involves an overnight hospital stay and your child will eat only soft food during recovery.

School-aged children may notice they look or sound different, even with a repaired cleft. They may also have learning differences related to being born with a cleft. Our teams use a multipronged approach to help. Between ages 5 to 7, any significant differences in the child's larger lip and nose are surgically corrected to minimize psychological effects of a cleft. For all our surgeries, child life specialists can help children with coping skills, comfort and play, so parents can focus on helping the child heal. Shriners Children’s has child psychologists on the craniofacial team to help with individualized education programs and support patients with confidence, self-esteem or bullying issues.

Pediatric dental and orthodontic services on Shriners Children's craniofacial teams begin to play a more important role with the development of teeth in early childhood. Bone graft surgery at 8 or 9 replaces missing bone in the gum (the dental arch) for the health of a child’s teeth. This surgery involves an overnight hospital stay. After surgery, patients have only liquids for several days and gradually resume a normal diet.

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Cleft Palate Care in Adolescence

Almost every child with a cleft will need final corrective surgery after their face develops. Once facial bones are in correct relationship to each other, cleft rhinoplasty (a nose and lip surgery) is performed, typically when the child is between 14 and 19 years old, depending on whether they also need jaw surgery.

While nearly all children who had a cleft will need braces (orthodontia), a smaller number of teenagers will need jaw surgery and orthodontia known as orthognathic surgery or facial skeletal surgery. The surgery in the late teenage years repositions the jaws to improve the child’s bite and appearance. The plastic surgeon carefully plans the surgery with Shriners Children’s dental specialists (dentists, orthodontists and prosthodontists) to achieve the best results.

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Terilyn and Evan are siblings both born with cleft lip/palate. Shriners Children's care team provides specialists who will help them grow up to live healthy, normal lives.

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Our locations treat thousands of patients with cleft palate every year. Shriners Children’s specialists are very familiar with differences in the facial anatomy of a child born with cleft, including differences in their dental health and hearing.

Dental and Orthodontic Services for Cleft Palate

Children who have a cleft will need unique dental and orthodontic care during different periods of the child’s growth.

Dentistry: Some patients with a cleft or other facial differences may have limited mouth opening, so daily teeth care is more difficult. Also, teeth may be missing or appear in the child’s palate. Shriners Children’s team of dentists understands these unique conditions and can coordinate care to provide the best appearance and bite when a child grows up.

Orthodontia: Children with cleft palate usually require a two phase treatment plan. Phase one involves a palate expander before any bone grafts that may be needed in the child’s jaw area. Phase two typically is traditional braces when patients are teenagers. Approximately 25% of children who have cleft lip or palate will require jaw surgery in their late teens to improve their bite and facial proportions.

Cleft Palate And Hearing

Children with cleft palate are more likely to have hearing issues caused by fluid buildup inside their ears. Ear tubes may be needed to reduce chronic ear infections which can affect speech and language. Shriners Children’s team care includes evaluation by audiologists and ear, nose and throat surgeons (otolaryngologists).

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Helping Cleft Patients Speak Clearly

Speech language pathologists are an important resource because the palate is how children form words and sounds. Babies with an unrepaired palate often make growling sounds that can be surprising for parents. Children may struggle to say consonants. Speech therapists at Shriners Children’s help every child have the chance to express themselves in a full, healthy life.

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Services We Provide

Speech Therapy

The speech therapy services available to patients at Shriners Children’s benefit children from birth through adolescence who have difficulties with communication and swallowing.

Hearing Services

Shriners Children's offers hearing services to help screen and assess problems and possible hearing loss that may be associated with craniofacial and cleft conditions.

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Facial and Dental Imaging

Shriners Children’s offers specialized facial and dental imaging (X-rays) for children with craniofacial differences. The painless process helps surgeons and doctors understand each child’s unique facial anatomy to plan treatment.

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Care Management

The care management team at Shriners Children's consists of registered nurses and social workers who act as resources for families throughout their plan of care.

Psychiatry & Psychological Services

Our psychologists at Shriners Children's specialize in evaluating and providing support to children and their families who are adjusting to a new diagnosis or having difficulty in their everyday lives due to trauma.

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Dentistry

Shriners Children’s offers a multidisciplinary team to address your dental concerns related to a variety of craniofacial conditions. Our specialists will evaluate your child and provide an individualized care plan.

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Cleft Palate

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Shriners Children’s provides comprehensive multidisciplinary team care with craniofacial surgery and supportive treatments shaped by the latest research.

Stages of Cleft Palate (cleft lip/palate) Repair:

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Cleft Lip and Palate & Craniofacial Care at Shriners Children's

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Right after birth:

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6 to 12 Months:

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Dental and Orthodontic Services for Cleft Palate

Cleft Palate And Hearing

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Locations for Cleft Palate care

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Helping Cleft Patients Speak Clearly

Services We Provide

Speech Therapy

Hearing Services

Facial and Dental Imaging

Care Management

Psychiatry & Psychological Services

Dentistry

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Shriners Children’s provides comprehensive multidisciplinary team care with craniofacial surgery and supportive treatments shaped by the latest research.

Stages of Cleft Palate (cleft lip/palate) Repair:

Cleft Lip and Palate & Craniofacial Care at Shriners Children's

Right after birth:

2 to 3 Months:

6 to 12 Months:

Dental and Orthodontic Services for Cleft Palate

Cleft Palate And Hearing

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