"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." That dangly thing in the back of your throat (a.k.a. your uvula) is pretty important—it helps you swallow ...

In the case of a cleft palate, the sides don't meet up and there is a gap in the roof of the mouth.

In the second part of the two-part series, TOLUWANI ENIOLA and UMAR MUHAMMED report that apart from shunning condoms, the common practice of patronising native doctors, who perform uvulectomy with ...