Victor Estrada
Mrs.Hwang
Period 6
1/13/15
Cleft lip/Palate
Cleft lip can also be called as a harelip.A cleft lip is a birth affect that you get on your upper lip and on the roof of your mouth.Some history about cleft chin is that back in the day the greeks used to kill their children just because they were born with a cleft lip.The knowledge of a cleft chin boosted up between the renaaissance and the 19th century.The first cleft lip surgery happened in 390 bc.In 1854 they reccomended scarfying the margins with a scalpel sutoring them with a triangular needle dipped in wax. A cleft lip is not a dominant or a recessive because it all depends on the genes of the parents or it also can be caused by the child’s environment.A cleft lip is an x linked trait.A cleft chin is considered a missing chromosome because the missing chromosome is what causes the cleft lip to form while the childrens in the womans stomach.Yes cleft lip is a multifactorial disorder because it is caused by your parents genes and it is also caused because of your childhood environment. One of the features of a cleft lip is clinical features of the microform and the ultrastructural characteristics of the orbiculqris oris.A cleft lip affects the victim by leaving you a scar on your upper lip.Babies with parents that take drugs for example cocaine,heroine,etc.A cleft chin can be describe by saying your upper lip is just split in

half.A cleft lip is consider a psychlogical.Some problems that a cleft chin has is that you can have feeding problems ear infections and hearing loss and also speech problems and dental problems.Cleft lip is found in a certain ethnic population. So far theres is nothing you can do to prevent a child to be born with a cleft lip.Thers only several ways you do to reduce the chances of having a cleft lip child and that is by not drinking alcohol and not smoking or taking perantal vitamins that contain falics acid.A treatment that you can do for a cleft lip is when the child is between 6 through 9 months old surgery may be needed if the problem has a big