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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 palate that occurs without a cleft of the lip almost always affects the back of the palate, but the amount of the rest of the palate that is affected is very variable. It can affect only part of the soft palate, the whole soft palate or the whole soft palate and part of the hard palate. There is a type of cleft that can be difficult to see. A submucous cleft palate is when the muscles of the soft palate have a gap, but the lining of the palate doesnât have a gap, so it looks similar to a normal palate.