Cleft & Related Craniofacial Anomalies What is Cleft Lip & Palate? Cleft Lip and Palate is a very common but most curable congenital deformity. If the patients receive appropriate treatments at the right time, they can rehabilitate, their social life and capability are no different from other people. There are different...
Along the Way with You Project Through 'Along the Way with You Project, HKACLP trains up senior parents as volunteers to offer all-weather & all-round supportive service to the families with cleft lip & palate patients on “one-volunteer-to-one-family” basis for sharing experience and giving emotional support, so as...
Charity Treatment Project for Cleft Lip and Palate Patients Since the year 2006, there is quite a number of 'Seeking for Help' cases from time to time, including those patients waiting too long for treatment, patients in mid twenties but not rendered any secondary treatment due to disconnected Primary and...
Orthodontic Treatment Project for Children with Clefts Although cleft lip and cleft palate are repaired before 1 year of age, the patients' growth of upper jaw may be affected. When a patient grows up, he may have their upper jaw underdeveloped causing underbite problem, associated with “V-shaped” alveolus and misplaced...
Resident Speech Therapy Service Children with cleft lip and palate typically have a variety of speech problems. It is because there is less tissue on the roof of the mouth for the tongue to touch, and the soft palate is not long enough to close off the mouth from the nose...
Nasal Splint Project The Association holds Nasal Splint Workshop once every month, in which maxillofacial technician will come to our centre to fit appropriate size nasal splints for our members at different ages to help correct their flattened nostrils. The technician will issue nasal splints to the babies after lip...
Community Educational Programme Education Through Social Platforms By posting texts and image updates, videos, and related contents in social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the official website, HKACLP enhances the public's understanding on cleft lip and palate and promotes our services. So that the parents and patients may find...
New Parents' Group The association regularly organizes Educational Group for new parents to provide them with comprehensive information about care-taking, course of treatment, treatment services available so as to help them give their affected babies the best care and get the most appropriate treatment, enabling better rehabilitation of the patients. The...
Adults' Consultation for Secondary Treatment Adult patients who suffer from secondary cleft lip and palate problems, such as dented mid-face, underbite & chewing problem, dental problem, abnormal appearance of upper lip and nose ... may hope to seek for secondary cleft lip and palate treatment to improve lip & nose...
Non-surgical Correction For Affected Newborns A cleft lip and palate baby may have one or two gap(s) on the upper lip and also collapsed nostril(s) on the affect side(s). These are correctable with special tape on the lips plus nasal device because soft tissue of the lip as well as...