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My Cleft Blog


Cleft 2025 in Kyoto
21 October 2025 | The International Congress on Cleft Lip and Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies Panel: Perspectives in Global Cleft Care at the Intersection of Evidence, Innovation, and Lived Experience Oral presentation: Patient-led Research: Novel Case Study Exploring Clinician-Patient Power Dynamics through Linguistic Discourse Analysis of a Paediatric Cleft Orthodontic Visit This has to be one of the highlights of being born with my cleft, and something I could ne
Feb 24 min read


Top 10 Cleft Anthems
Having a cleft can be a wild emotional roller coaster - you can feel angry, isolated and confused one day, then empowered and confident...
Apr 20, 20204 min read


What to Take to Hospital
< Blog 27/10/2019 When you’re going through the emotions of having an operation (whether stressed or excited, nervous or calm), your mind...
Oct 27, 20192 min read


Happy New Year!
< Blog 01/01/2018 It's 2018...already! 2017 feels like it's flown by in a rollercoaster of monumental highlights. Here are my best bits:...
Jan 1, 20183 min read
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