Cleft Lip and Palate

Cleft Lip

Symptoms
Evaluation
Treatment

Symptoms

Although your cleft lip and/or palate was treated earlier in life, you may experience some of the following due to your original cleft condition:

• Crooked, poorly shaped or missing teeth
• Misalignment of teeth and jaw
• Deformities of the upper jaw, known as the maxilla
• Speech problems
• Un-repaired oronasal fistulae, which is a hole between the mouth and nose cavity. This hole may allow substances in the mouth to enter the nose cavity, resulting in infection
• Alveolar clefts, which are defects in the bone that supports the teeth

Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Medical Center.
Last updated May 9, 2007