Baby Soft Cleft Palate

Cleft lip and cleft palate are facial and oral malformations that occur very early in pregnancy while the baby is developing inside the mother.

Baby soft cleft palate.

The soft palate is the skin tissue and muscles that extends from where the hard palate ends to the back of the throat. Hard palate versus soft palate 1. Most babies with a cleft of the palate are not able to use standard bottles or solely breast feed because they cannot create the suction needed to draw the milk out of the nipple. Orofacial clefts especially cleft lip with or without cleft palate can be diagnosed during pregnancy by a routine ultrasound.

Incomplete cleft palate incomplete cleft palates start in the back of the mouth at the uvula and extend forward but. A cleft palate occurs when the roof of the mouth does not close properly during a baby s early development inside the womb. There can be a cleft of the soft palate alone or a cleftof both the soft and hard palate. The palate is made up of two parts either of which can be cleft the.

A cleft is an opening or split in the palate. Cleft lip and cleft palate occur when tissues in the baby s face and mouth don t fuse properly. They can also be diagnosed after the baby is born especially cleft palate. The palateis made up of two main parts a bony component calledthe hard palate and a muscular component called the soft palate.

Babies can be born with a split in one or both parts of the palates. Clefts of the palate can vary in appearance and severity. They may also have a split in the gums and lip or a split in only one of these places. Normally the tissues that make up the lip and palate fuse together in the second and third months of pregnancy.

However sometimes certain types of cleft palate for example submucous cleft palate and bifid uvula might not be diagnosed until later in life. Clefting results when there is not enough tissue in. Usually the split in the palate is clearly visible.