Changing Faces, Changing Lives Sunday 20 September 2026 Adelaide Families Unite! Join the City to Bay on Sunday 20 September! Lace up and run, walk or wheel for Team Craniofacial Australia at one of Adelaide’s biggest and most loved community events. Register now and be part of something bigger than the finish line. Adelaide families […]
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Changing Faces, Changing Lives Sunday 19 July 2026 Melbourne Families Unite! Join the Run Melbourne on Sunday 19 July! Lace up and run, walk or wheel for Team Craniofacial Australia at one of Melbourne’s biggest and most loved community events. Register now and be part of something bigger than the finish line. Melbourne families let’s
Changing Faces, Changing Lives Sunday 24 May 2026 Perth Families Unite! Join the HBF Run for a Reason on Sunday 24 May! Lace up and run, walk or wheel for Team Craniofacial Australia at one of Perth’s biggest and most loved community events.With 40,000 participants last year and the event selling out two years in
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One of the things that we do at Craniofacial Australia is support people from overseas with craniofacial conditions. Zuhair, a dedicated father of 3, searched tirelessly to find the best support and treatment for his first-born daughter Zuhrah. We spoke to Zuhair about how our Patient Support program has played a vital part in accessing the best possible care and treatment for his precious daughter.
Meet Vallerie – Born with a bilateral cleft lip, she received her diagnosis during pregnancy and began treatment at just 14 weeks old. Over the years, Vallerie has undergone 7 surgeries, including a hip-to-face bone graft, Lefort 1 Maxilla Advancement, and septorhinoplasty – as well as over a decade of orthodontic care.
Teddy was born via a planned C-section. On day three, during a routine checkup, the paediatrician came in to examine him. My husband, Alex, jokingly commented, “Thank goodness he doesn’t have a head like mine,” as Alex was born with craniosynostosis.
There is a special bond between Professor David David AC and Sofia, one that has existed as long as she can remember. Now in her mid teens, Sofia was only seven months old when she first became a patient.
I was 6 years old when I first came to Australia from Pakistan where I was born. However, I was born with a birth defect called ‘Cleft Lip Palate’, 1 year later my father came to Australia by boat. He was a refugee and was finding it really hard to find a proper job (as he was uneducated) and to also support us back in Pakistan.
A bright and determined little girl who was diagnosed at just 4 months old. Her journey began with endoscopic surgery to remove the fused suture in her skull, followed by 9 months of helmet therapy to gently shape her head as she grew.
Reuben was born in 2022 weighing a healthy 3,960g. Reuben was delivered via planned C-section at 37 weeks due to unknown cause of acceleration of growth and maternal history of pre-eclapsia and HELLP (Hemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes and Low Platelets) Syndrome.
