What happens at the Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Cleft & Craniofacial Center?
Our specialists work together as a team at the Clinic on Monday afternoons two times a month. Our team includes two plastic surgeons, speech/language pathologists, dentists, orthodontists, geneticists, ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctors, and a nurse coordinator, all of whom specialize in cleft lip and palate. The children usually come in early in the afternoon and they see appropriate members of the team. At the end of the day, the team gets together to discuss each child individually and come up with a treatment plan for each child. That information is shared with the family, the patient’s primary care physician and other professionals whom the parents indicate. The patient’s primary-care physician is an important part of the team.
