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Dr Anitha Anchan | Updated: March 4, 2014 7:10 pm. Tags: Birth Defects Gum disease Oral Health Cleft lip Tongue tie. It is likely that you have seen kids with a cleft in the lip sometimes continuing into the palate (or roof of your mouth) or tooth/teeth missing from birth. Well, these are what are called congenital anomalies or birth defects.
All parents are at risk of having a baby with a birth defect, regardless of age, race, income or residence. In the US (and many other developed nations), 2% to 3% of babies are born with a medically significant birth defect.The infants with birth defects include many with heart defects, cleft lip or palate, Down syndrome, spina bifida, and limb defects.irth defects are present in one of every five babies that die in the US. How a particular birth defect affects a child varies and depends greatly on the severity of the defect and whether or not other medical problems are present.