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The mission is to educate and bring awareness to others around the world whose lives are touched by cleft lip and or/ palate and other Craniofacial anomalies by providing Support, Education, Advocacy, and Research.
The vision of the Cleft Lip & Palate Foundation of Smiles is to provide support for individuals and families with cleft lip and/or palate and other Craniofacial anomalies.
Networking: Connecting and Building Relationships with families for a Lifetime Educating: Providing Guidance Advocating:
Promoting Support Researching: Collecting & Providing Information
Join our network! A great way to meet new friends, share our concerns, get answers, and feel more confident. Parents, patients and families get the national information and support you need from the Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation Of Smiles.
If you have questions about surgeries, feeding, speech,emotional issues or even battling insurance companies, You will find all the information you need right here! Come and be apart of our wondeful network today.
Rachel Mancuso CEO and Founder
Mother of twins with Cleft Lip and Palate. UCLP and BLCP
We do not recommend any particular team, doctor,hospital, other health care professional or any particular course of treatment. .
The Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation Of Smiles is designed to support, not to replace, the relationship(s) that exists between a patient/site visitors and his/her physician."
Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation Of Smiles, is funded by our members and sponsor(s) and families throughout the US. Our parent(s) have made this network possible.
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Cleft lip or Palate
• Cleft means "split" or "separate." During early pregnancy, separate areas of the face develop individually and then join together. If some parts do not join properly, the result is a cleft.
• Cleft lip or palate is one of the most common birth defects, affecting one in 500 children in the United States.
• Clefts in the United States occur more often in children of Asian, Latino or Native American descent.
• Compared with girls, twice as many boys have a cleft lip, both with and without a cleft palate. However, when compared with boys, twice as many girls have a cleft palate without a cleft lip.
• Cleft palate and cleft lip are the most common congenital defects of the head and neck.
• Unless treated surgically, cleft palate can interfere with feeding, speech development and hearing.