Nationally recognized for its innovative team approach to helping children with cleft lip and palate and craniofacial abnormalities, the Cleft Palate Center at Saint John's Health Center provides diagnostic, surgical, social and educational services to children and their families in a family-centered environment.

The Center is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art care in a comfortable setting. The Cleft Palate Center's specialities include:

Prenatal Consult: At the Cleft Palate Center at Saint John's Health Center, cleft care can begin before your baby is born. With current advances in ultrasound, many families find out the baby they are expecting has a cleft. This is an opportunity for the parents to meet members of the team and to feel better prepared to begin care when their baby is born.

Naso-alveolar molding: This technique has been available at Saint John's since 1993, one of the first centers to offer the technique. This treatment can be started in the newborn nursery or as soon as possible at the Cleft Palate Center.

Feeding: Our nurse coordinator/feeding specialist is available for consultation to help establish effective feeding so your baby can have a healthy start and be ready to begin surgical reconstruction.

For more information about The Cleft Palate Center, please call (310) 829-8150 or e-mail cleftpalate@stjohns.org.

The Cleft Palate Center at Saint John's Health Center is an American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association Affiliated Team. 

Click here for information on the annual symposium presented by The Cleft Palate Center at Saint John's Health Center.