Cleft Lip

One of the most common birth defects affecting children in North America is a cleft lip. The incomplete formation of the upper lip (cleft lip) or roof of the mouth (cleft palate) can occur individually or as a combined defect. The degree of severity varies may involve one or both sides of the face. A cleft or separation of the upper lip occurs very early in fetal development. During fetal development, certain components of the upper lip fail to form normally. A surgeon performs a cleft lip and/or cleft palate repair to correct this abnormal development and to restore function while giving the patient a more normal appearance. Most surgeons repair clefts with specialized plastic surgery techniques. The surgery improves the ability of the patient to eat, speak, hear, and breathe, in addition to restoring a more normal appearance.

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House Calls

A house call, or Physician house call, is an act of customer service where the doctors goes to the consumers home, rather than the consumer visiting the suppliers place of business. House calls are most often associated with doctor house calls. There are still doctors making house calls. The physician-led multidisciplinary team provides comprehensive, patient-centered care for any condition, from the simple problems to the very complex, in the patient’s own environment. Thanks to modern technology and our sophisticated, multi-faceted delivery system, we can do more tests and procedures in our patient’s home or place of business than other primary care physicians do in their office. House call doctors are equipped to perform most procedures normally performed in a medical office. House call doctors utilize electronic medical records and will coordinate home health and hospice services, mobile imaging services, durable medical equipment services, laboratory services, and specialist referral services. House call doctors acts as the primary care physician or as augmentation to or as an interim physician to the patients’ present medial team. Doctor’s House calls provide post hospital stabilization service to physicians, insurance plans, and hospitals to mitigate hospital re-admissions.