Neonatal cleft palate is mainly treated by surgery, which is a surgical procedure that restores a near-normal anatomical shape of the lip and palate.
Newborns with cleft palate should undergo early surgical treatment as prescribed by the doctor, and the main surgical procedures commonly used in clinical practice are cleft lip repair and cleft palate repair. In addition, some newborns with cleft palate may also require nasolabial secondary deformity correction, palatal fistula repair, surgical orthognathic surgery, and so on.
Timely surgical treatment of newborn children with cleft palate can help improve facial appearance, and also help solve speech and feeding problems to some extent. The surgical scar is in the mouth and does not affect the appearance of the child.
If a newborn has a cleft palate after birth, he or she should actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment, so as to prevent the impact on feeding and future sound formation and articulation problems.