0 an opening in the top of the mouth caused when a baby does not develop normally before it is born --
1 a condition in which a person is born with an opening in the roof of the mouth --
If we were unfortunate enough to have red hair, or to have a cleft palate.
He told me about an operation for a cleft palate on his baby son, which went wrong.
The number of children born with the conditions hare lip or cleft palate has tripled.
The early treatment of cleft palate conditions.
Early speech production of children with cleft palate.
The role of cigarette smoking during pregnancy in the etiology of cleft lip with or without cleft palate.
Follow-up every six months of all primary school aged children with cleft palate is recommended.
Even before speech develops, babbling patterns are abnormal in children with cleft palate and many surgeons close the palate at six months or younger.
