Cleft Lip/Cleft Palate – Surgery Follow Up

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In general for Cleft Lips, you go see a doctor as needed after surgery. Typically, after the surgery is done and you’re out of the initial healing period, the physician or the group will follow-up with you over time just to make sure you have no other issues with speech or phonation. The cleft palate, similarly, once you’re out of the initial healing period, and if you’re swallowing and speaking fine, the only followup you typically have is just for the hearing, just in case you’re having middle ear ventilation issues.