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Cleft and Craniofacial Services

M Health Fairview’s cleft and craniofacial care providers specialize in evaluating and treating children and adults with cleft lip and palate, as well as other complex craniofacial syndromes and conditions.

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Cleft and Craniofacial Services

Overview

Our M Health Fairview surgeons are national leaders in the area of cleft and craniofacial care and are active in leadership, advocacy, and research. Our pediatric cleft and craniofacial team treat patients with cleft lip, palate, and many other craniofacial conditions.

Furthermore, as part of a larger system of experts, your M Health Fairview cleft and craniofacial providers team up with experts in all aspects of complex care. We work together with your child’s entire care team to coordinate excellent care.

Care can begin before children are born and we continue to partner with patients and families into adulthood.

Our approach

First and foremost, we take a family-centric approach. Our team provides recommendations in conjunction with parent’s guidance and feedback.

We also believe in coordinating care across disciplines. Your child may have other health concerns in addition to craniofacial needs.

Lastly, we know that navigating care for your child with cleft lip and palate or other craniofacial disorder is complex. We do everything we can to make it easier by ensuring that patients see all the necessary providers during their clinic visit. Coordinated care is both more convenient for families and allows the team to work together in real time to deliver better outcomes.

Our Philosophy of Care for Cleft and Craniofacial Conditions

Our goal is to partner with your family to ensure that children with cleft lip and palate or other craniofacial conditions thrive, starting even before they are born.

Prenatal Visits: What to Expect

Care of cleft and craniofacial conditions can start before patients are born. We work in conjunction with the M Health Fairview Maternal Fetal Medicine program to provide prenatal care for our patients, and we offer parents prenatal consultations with members of our team. A prenatal visit can answer questions about what to expect, introduce parents to our team and provide resources for parents before and after baby is born.

Our Team

Our team is led by Dr. Luke Jakubowski, who is the medical director of our Cleft Lip and Palate Program. He is joined by Dr. Siv Chinnadurai, in Pediatric ENT and Facial Plastic Surgery, as well as other providers and faculty with the University of Minnesota, U of M Physicians, and Fairview Health Services. We work together to provide an integrated treatment approach in order to provide the best treatment, care, and long-term management resources for our patients.

We are conveniently located across from Masonic Children’s Hospital on the 2nd floor of Park Plaza, 701 25th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55454. This is within the Lions Children’s Hearing and ENT Clinic. We can be reached by phone at 612-365-8346.

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Our team is approved by the American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association (ACPA).

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Refer a Patient

To refer a patient to our Cleft and Craniofacial Clinic, please reach us by phone at 612-365-3846. We are also available by fax at 612-365-8301 and by email at cleft@umphysicians.umn.edu.

Expecting a Baby With a Cleft?

We offer prenatal guidance for parents who are expecting a baby with a cleft palate. Contact our nurse coordinator, Ahna Logan, RN at 612-365-8346 to schedule a prenatal consultation.