The Department of Plastic Surgery at JIPMER, through the Smile Train Cleft Project, organised a nurses mentorship programme on rendering comprehensive cleft care through feeding and nutrition.

What if a simple error in our genetic script could change the way a face is formed? Tiny RNA glitches during early development can ripple into one of the most common ...

THE 34th Chinese medical team in Tanzania's Zanzibar has recently completed five cleft lip surgeries and 19 cleft palate surgeries on children within just five days -- each procedure carried out ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects, occurring in about one in 1,050 births in the United States. These defects, which appear when the tissues that form the lip or the ...