Baby Soft Cleft Palate

Clefts of the palate can vary in appearance and severity.

Baby soft cleft palate.

Hard palate versus soft palate 1. The soft palate is the skin tissue and muscles that extends from where the hard palate ends to the back of the throat. Clefting results when there is not enough tissue in. There can be a cleft of the soft palate alone or a cleftof both the soft and hard palate.

Most babies with a cleft of the palate are not able to use standard bottles or solely breast feed because they cannot create the suction needed to draw the milk out of the nipple. Incomplete cleft palate incomplete cleft palates start in the back of the mouth at the uvula and extend forward but. Babies can be born with a split in one or both parts of the palates. This cleft can make feeding hard for your baby.

The palate is made up of two parts either of which can be cleft the. Normally the tissues that make up the lip and palate fuse together in the second and third months of pregnancy. The palateis made up of two main parts a bony component calledthe hard palate and a muscular component called the soft palate. Usually the split in the palate is clearly visible.

But in babies with cleft lip and cleft palate the fusion never takes place or occurs only part way leaving an opening cleft. They may also have a split in the gums and lip or a split in only one of these places. They can also be diagnosed after the baby is born especially cleft palate. A cleft palate occurs when the roof of the mouth does not close properly during a baby s early development inside the womb.

Complete cleft palate a baby born with a complete cleft palate has an opening in the roof of their mouth that runs. Cleft lip and cleft palate are facial and oral malformations that occur very early in pregnancy while the baby is developing inside the mother. However sometimes certain types of cleft palate for example submucous cleft palate and bifid uvula might not be diagnosed until later in life.