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and '''cleft palate''', which can also occur together as '''cleft lip and palate''' are variations of a type of clefting
Congenital Deformity caused by abnormal facial development during
Gestation . This type of deformity is sometimes referred to as a ''cleft''. A '''
Cleft ''' is a sub-division in the body's natural structure, regularly formed before birth. A cleft lip or palate can be successfully treated with
Surgery soon after
Birth . Cleft lips or palates occur in somewhere between one in 600 and one in 800 births. The term '''hare lip''' is sometimes used colloquially to describe the condition because of the resemblance of a
Hare 's lip.
Interestingly, in the
First Century AD ''Lun Heng'' (Chapter 6),
Wang Chong says, "If a pregnant woman eats rabbit, the baby will
have a cleft lip." The Chinese word for cleft lip is ''tuchun'' (兔唇), literally "harelip."
A is a very minor cleft where no surgery is required to correct it. A microform cleft can appear as small as a little dent in the red part of the lip or look like a scar.
If only skin tissue is affected one speaks of cleft lip. Cleft lip is formed in the top of the lip as either a small gap or an indentation in the lip (partial or incomplete cleft) or continues into the nose (complete cleft). Lip cleft can occur as one sided (unilateral) or two sided (bilateral). It is due to the failure of fusion of the maxillary and medial nasal processes (formation of the primary palate).
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