cleft
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"I think it's important to inform your cleft team because it may impact any further treatment that you might need," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
After completing extra training she now works with non-profit organisation CleftInject, which help adults with scarring from cleft lip surgery find aesthetic practitioners who understand the condition.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
A cleft lip and palate is a condition which is present from birth, external when the upper lip, roof of the mouth, or both, fail to fuse properly during pregnancy.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Aesthetics treatment for people with scars involves using filler to reduce their appearance, restore symmetry, and add volume after cleft lip surgery.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
“She did use that word. She said it was like a cleft lip or something.”
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
The timing of when DNA methylation occurs, was critical to the development of orofacial clefts.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2024
Although it only covers about three square miles, the coastline is so ragged with “geos” — deep clefts in cliffs — that walking the circumference takes longer than you might think.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
The protein is large and globular, and it doesn’t have deep pockets or clefts on its surface where a drug could slip in.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
They communicate across infinitesimal gaps known as synaptic clefts.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2018
Then the breeze died too and there was no noise save the drip and trickle of water that ran out of clefts and spilled down, leaf by leaf, to the brown earth of the island.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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