We provide families with an earlier intervention.
In 2011, our team made a groundbreaking discovery: high levels of estrogen found naturally in newborn babies could have significant advantages for children needing reconstructive surgery.
Since then, we have expanded on the science behind this idea, harnessing it to address cleft lip repair during the neonatal period. This type of repair is traditionally done when the child is 3 to 6 months old and can involve the cumbersome process of nasoalveolar molding (NAM).
Our center the only institution in the country to offer cleft lip repair without NAM as early as 10 days old.
“Any parent would jump at the opportunity to have their child’s cleft lip repaired as soon as possible. With the early repair, everything just came that much sooner: the relief, the joy, and the assurance that our child could grow up healthy and normal. We can’t recommend it enough to other families. ”
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Pictured Above: Patients of Dr. Jeffrey A. Hammoudeh