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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.
The most frequent of these are the orofacial clefts, cleft lip and/or cleft palate (CL/P). CL/P results in complications affecting feeding, speech, hearing and psychological development. Patients will undergo multiple rounds of surgical repair starting in the first year of life and may continue until 18 or 20 years old.