Restoring form and function

A cleft lip is a physical split or separation of the two sides of the upper lip and appears as a narrow opening or gap in the skin of the upper lip.

In three months’ time, the one year old will need to have a cleft palate repair, a surgery to fix a cleft, or hole, in the palate or the roof of the mouth. “If you get a complication like an infection, you lose everything,” she said. Some of the cleft lip and palate symptoms include: difficulty with feeding, difficulty swallowing, with potential for liquids or foods to come out the nose, speech abnormalities and chronic ear infections.

Meanwhile, plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Saleigh Adams, said he strived for excellence in the global management of all forms of tissue defects, which includes bone, cartilage and soft tissue.

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