Article: Reasons to cherish 'Smiling Faces'; Mother, son who've been treated at local Cleft Palate Clinic are helping to ensure its continued health.

When Leah Davis had her second child in July 2001, she didn't expect he'd come into this world with a cleft palate and lip.

"As soon as he was born, I knew something was wrong from the way they acted," recalled Davis. "I don't know why I was so shocked."

But she acknowledged that she shouldn't have been so surprised: Both she and her sister, Rose Cole, of Lancaster, were born with cleft palates.

Davis knew that cleft palate and lip have hereditary factors. She also knew Noah's birth defects would be repairable. And now, as chairwoman of the Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic's upcoming Smiling Faces fund-raiser, she wants to make sure that the medical care and services her family received will ...

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