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The repair of the cleft palate (also known as a palatoplasty) is usually done at six to eighteen months of age. Although the child may look normal from the outside, the cleft palate can be seen by looking for a separation in the roof of the child's mouth.
A cleft is a split or fissure. So a cleft lip is a split in the upper lip, between the mouth and nose. Some children have only a small notch in the lip, whereas others have a more pronounced cleft. In babies with a severe cleft, there is a complete separation extending from the lip to the nose (Tolarova 2009) . A cleft palate is when the roof of a baby's mouth has not joined completely, leaving a gap. It can happen with or without a cleft lip. Babies are affected differently.