Clefts of the lip and palate are generally divided into two groups, isolated cleft palate and
cleft lip with or without cleft palate, representing a heterogeneous group of disorders …

Majoradvances in the diagnosis and treatment of oral clefts have been made in the past 50
years, and recent genetics and epidemiological studies have led to new theories about the …

Classical descriptive epidemiology in the field of cleft lip and palate aims to quantify the
problem, and in the higher income countries it is possible to do this with varying degrees of …

Background: Much of the literature on the epidemiology of cleft lip with or without cleft palate
is more than three decades old. The question arose as to whether there has been any recent …

Embryology and epidemiology of cleft lip and palate. Craniofacial anomalies, in particular
cleft lip and palate, are major human birth defects with a worldwide frequency of 1 in 700 …

The Indian sub-continent remains one of the most populous areas of the world with an
estimated population of 1.1 billion in India alone. This yields an estimated 24.5 million births …

Cleft lip and palate (CLP) are common congenital malformations affecting the head and
neck. The incidence of cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) is w1: 1000, and the …

As part of a collaborative project on the epidemiology of craniofacial anomalies, funded by
the National Institutes for Dental and Craniofacial Research and channeled through the …

Objective The members of the International Consortium for Oral Clefts Genetics recognize
the need for collaboration between researchers involved in etiologic studies of …

Objective To assess the overall and cause specific mortality of people from birth to 55 years
with cleft lip and palate. Design Long term follow up study. Setting Danish register of deaths …