Patient returns for alveolar cleft surgery The patient is a 12-year-old female from Hubli in Karnataka, India. She was born with a left-sided cleft lip, palate and alveolus defect. A cleft lip defect usually involves the lip and nose. Postsurgical scar formation usually involves the philtral column. The patient and her parents had been referred...

Patient born with a cleft lip and palate The patient is a 15-year-old boy from Warangal in Telangana, India. He had been born with a unilateral left sided cleft lip and palate at a local hospital. Cleft lip is incomplete fusion of the two halves of the upper lip. A palatal cleft is incomplete fusion...