0 an upper lip that does not join in the middle because it did not develop normally before birth: --
A preliminary study of facial growth and morphology in unoperated male unilateral cleft lip and palate subjects at 13 years of age.
Defects in fusion of the mandibular swellings and palatine shelves would result in median cleft of the lower lip and jaw and cleft lip and palate respectively.
Early predictors of attachment in infants with cleft lip and/or palate.
However, the longterm psychological management of a child with a cleft lip and/or palate continues to be important at all levels of the service.
Long-term follow up study of survival associated with cleft lip and palate at birth.
An example of this would be the detection of a baby with a cleft lip and palate following delivery.
Facial cleft abnormalities may therefore be associated with brain abnormalities, the most extreme example being median cleft lip and lack of hemispheric fusion (ie holoprosencephaly).
Failure of these processes may cause a cleft lip.
