title: Experience with unoperated cleft lip and palate patients in a Nigerian teaching hospital.
abstract: A review of 31 cases of unoperated cleft lip and palate patients aged 10 years and above managed over a 6 years period at a suburban Nigeria teaching hospital is presented. There was an overall preponderance of the female gender and isolated cleft lip (58%) was the most predominant. Although clefts were very wide on presentation, there was adequate well-developed soft tissue in adults to achieve a cosmetically and functionally acceptable repair. This study also confirms the views that late primary repair of facial cleft is less likely to produce impaired growth of the maxillaas is commonly observed in early repair. However, the advantages of early repair cannot be over-emphasized.
authors: Department of Dental Surgery, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Borno State, Nigeria.
authors: Oladapo
authors: O
authors: Olasoji
authors: Toyin
authors: T
authors: Arotiba
authors: Dilli
authors: D
authors: Dogo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D002648:Child; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome