Parents of girl with cleft repair surgery seek solution for speech problems The patient is an 11-year-old girl from Cuttack in Orissa, India who was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate. This is the most common among birth defects in the world. Lower facial growth can be impeded by this deformity. The patient […]
World renowned surgeon for cleft lip and palate repair Dr SM Balaji is a world renowned expert on cleft lip and palate surgical correction. He has over 30 years of experience operating on cleft cases. Many cases of cleft repair done elsewhere, which have failed are often referred to him. His many innovations to existing […]
Initial Presentation This young man from Yangon, Myanmar, had been born with a cleft lip and palate and had undergone cleft repair as an infant. He had subsequently developed velopharyngeal incompetence, where there is escape of air through the nose during speech. This had lead to him having difficulty pronouncing certain words well and he […]
