Resources
Treatment and care
- Feeding your baby
- What about breastfeeding?
- Contact information for manufacturers of cleft nurses
- Tips for hospital nurseries
- Cleft Surgery
- Information about surgical scars
- Information about submucous cleft palate
- Treatment options for better speech
- Help with hearing
- Bone grafting the cleft maxilla
- Dental care for a child with cleft lip and palate
- Replacing a missing tooth
- Speech development
- Support for individuals affected by clift lip and palate
- Parameters for evaluation and treatment for patients with cleft lip/palate or other craniofacial anomalies
Other topics
- Genetics and you
- To the teacher of a child with a cleft
- Letter to the parent of a child with a cleft
- Preparing your child for social situations
- Information about financial assistance
- Dealing with your insurance company/hmo
- Special consideration for speech and language development for the child who is adopted internationally
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