what is harelip?

Answer 1

A hare lip is more correctly called a cleft lip. It is a result of the 5 "plates" of the head to fuse properly at around weeks 6 to 12 of gestation. It can be on both sides of the lip (bilateral) or one side (unilateral). It can be complete (right up to the nostril) or incomplete (may be anything from a small notch in the lip to almost reaching the nostril). Often the hard and/or soft palates (roof of mouth) and/or alveolar ridge (gum) are affected.

Cleft lips are surgically repaired (plastic surgery) when the baby is usually around 3 months old. The scar fades in the year following surgery, and can be barely noticeable (depending on the severity of the cleft). The nose may be misshapen due to the cleft as well (flattened on the side of the cleft). This can be corrected at the same time, but is often left until later years.

A lack of folic acid during pregnancy, or the mother drinking, or other environmental and genetic factors MAY lead to a cleft, but not always. My son had a cleft, and I did everything as I should have - it was just "one of those things". It occurs in approx 1 in 750 births.

Clefts may either be detected at a 20 week pregnancy ultrasound, or not discovered until birth. A cleft lip alone rarely causes speech problems, but a cleft palate can cause speech and other issues, including feeding.

Answer 2

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Cleft is a congenital deformity caused by a failure in facial development during pregnancy. It can be treated with surgery shortly after birth with highly successful results. Cleft occurs in somewhere between one in 600 and one in 800 births. Cleft occurs in several severities and is divided in two major categories: cleft lip and cleft palate. The term hare lip or hair lip are sometimes used to describe the condition because of the resemblance of a hare's lip, they are however quite derogaratory and old fashioned. A cleft is a separation in a body structure. Clefts that occur in the oral-facial region often involve the lip, the roof of the mouth (hard palate) or the soft tissue in the back of the mouth (soft palate). Two major types of oral-facial clefts are cleft lip/palate and isolated cleft palate. A microform cleft is a very minor cleft where no surgery is required to correct it. A microform cleft can appear as small as a little dent in the red part of the lip or look like a scar.

Answer 3

A Harelip is a birth defect often accompanied by a cleft palate. This is where the lip is like that of a Hare (split from the edge of the upper lip to the nose) The roof of the mouth can have a gap into the nasal area. A fairly routine operation these days can remedy both problems

Answer 4

This is a birth defect where the soft palette of the mouth fails to close on one side or the other of the upper palette and there remains, at birth, a gap that goes from the mouth up into the underside of the nose, and many times the gap extends out to the lip and the upper lip is divided in two. The split lip is a gross deformity and is impossible to hide, and the defect causes problems in eating food, beginning with suckling as a baby, and nasal drainage goes into the mouth, and difficulty swallowing, and talking are adversely affected.

The defect does not heal itself or cure itself once the baby is born.

Fortunately this defect is easily cured by an operation which includes cutting the open sides of the gap and sewing them together until they heal.

Answer 5

What Is A Harelip

Answer 6

A harelip is also called a cleft palate. It's when a person's upper lip doesn't develop properly and there is a "gap" in the person's lip, usually right in the middle of the upper lip that goes all the way up to the nose. I think they called it a "harelip" because a person who has one looks sort of like a rabbit...

Answer 7

It is a birth defect where the lip is malformed in the Womb. Some are really ugly. See the Smile train, a group of doctors who go around the world fixing them. It is caused by a mineral deficiency , as are about 98% of birth defects.

Answer 8

It's a congenitally deformed lip, usually the upper one, in which there is a vertical fissure causing it to resemble the cleft lip of a hare.

Answer 9

It is when the palate of the mouth (the roof) doesn't form correctly during fetal development and there is a split in it, which extends to the lip. It creates a crimp in the lip, similar to that of a rabbit (a hare).

Answer 10

A bad cleft pallet, where the roof of your mouth does not grow together all the way can cause your lip to split. This can be corrected by surgery most of the time.