Newborns are born with cleft lips, commonly known as “hare lips”, and if the child’s tongue and upper teeth are also cleft, commonly known as “lupus”, medically known as “cleft lip and palate”, cleft lip and palate affect the child’s The treatment of cleft lip and palate is especially important because it affects the aesthetics and normal function of the child.
Environmental factors include: viral infection during the first trimester, some kind of physical or mental injury; chronic diseases such as anemia, branched urine disease, severe nutritional disorders during pregnancy; pregnant women taking sedative drugs, anti-epileptic drugs and hormonal drugs that affect the development of the fetus; high doses of maternal X-ray exposure during pregnancy.
Therefore prevention is especially important for congenital cleft lip and palate: if a child with cleft lip and palate deformity is born, it will be a lovely child as long as it is well fed and treated with timely surgery.
The treatment of cleft lip and palate is a series of treatments, one without the other, the purpose of treatment is to restore the normal shape of the upper lip and normal speech function, in order to obtain satisfactory surgical results, the choice of the time of the corrective surgery is very important, at present the best time for surgery is recognized at home and abroad as 3 months after birth for cleft lip and 6 months for cleft palate.