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Risk factors for oral-facial clefts include:
For the infant:
Having other birth defects
Sex: males
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Oral-Facial Clefts
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Orofacial clefts are among the most common congenital defects. Some neonates are born with an epulis (a benign hamartoma of the gum), which, if large enough, can cause feeding difficulties and may obstruct the airway.
In the United States, nearly 6,800 babies are born with oral-facial clefts annually. These abnormalities occur less frequently among African Americans.
These birth defects, known as 'orofacial clefts,' include cleft lip, cleft palate, and combined cleft lip and cleft palate. Cleft lip is more common than cleft palate.
Orofacial: Choanal atresia, Orofacial clefts
Other: Amniotic band sequence
New York State Department of Health
Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention ...
Facial clefts may be accompanied by other facial anomalies such as abnormally small jaw, and missing ears or nose. The body wall defects allow internal organs to protrude through the abdomen.
Valproate use has been associated with neural tube defects, facial clefts (cleft lip or palate), and in boys hypospadias (abnormal position of urinary opening on the penis).
Pregnant women and women who are likely to become pregnant can do the following to help prevent oral-facial clefts in their unborn children: ...
be used to treat a wide range of facial deformities but it is most appropriate in syndromic patients and children with conditions such as cleft palate, severe asymmetry, severe mandibular hypoplasia with resulting airway compromise, facial clefts, ...
 See also: Cleft lip, Pregnancy, Surgery, Cleft palate, Symptom
  
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