Donate a Smile to a Child

Many young kids of the world today are staining from cleft lip. Oral clefting happens when the tissues of the lip and/or palate of a fetus don't augment simultaneously early in pregnancy. Children with clefts often don't have enough tissue in their mouths, and the tissue they do have is not fused together properly to form the roof of their mouths.

A cleft lip seems as a narrow unfastening or gap in the skin of the top lip that extends all the way to the groundwork of the nose. A cleft palate is an unfastening between the roof of the mouth and the nasal cavity. Some children have clefts that extend through both the front and back part of the palates, while other ones have only partial clefting.

The three widespread types of clefts are:

Cleft lip with out a cleft palate.

Cleft palate without a cleft lip.

Cleft lip and cleft palate together.

Doctors don't understand exactly why a baby evolves cleft lip or cleft palate, but accept as true it may be a combination of genetic (inherited) and ecological components (such as certain drugs, illnesses, and the use of alcoholic beverage or tobacco while a woman is pregnant).

The risk may be higher for children whose sibling or parents have a cleft or who have a history of clefting in their families. Both mothers and fathers can overtake on a gene or genes that can assist to the development of cleft palate or cleft lip. (Kaplan, pp. 356-68)

Make a Child Smile Appeal

It was created by Richard Barker in 2004. It raised over fifteen thousand pounds for the young kids with cleft lip. Richard liked to decrease the stigma that surrounded cleft. In Richard's own words we will be able to cure this; however we still want to stop this ...