%0 Journal Article
%T A retrospective characterization study on patients with oral clefts in Medell¨ªn, Colombia, South America
%A Cer¨®n Zapata
%A Ana Mar¨ªa
%A L¨®pez Palacio
%A Ana Mar¨ªa
%A Aristiz¨¢bal Puerta
%A Gloria Mar¨ªa
%A Uribe ¨¢lvarez
%A Carolina
%J Revista Facultad de Odontolog¨ªa Universidad de Antioquia
%D 2010
%I Universidad de Antioquia
%X introduction: the objective of this study was to make a clinical and epidemiological characterization of the patients with cleft lip and/or palate (clp) who consulted at the children£¿s hospital cl¨ªnica noel foundation of medell¨ªn, colombia, south america, between 1985 and 2003. methods: 919 clinical records were evaluated for a descriptive, longitudinal, retrospective study. a univariate statistical analysis was used for the qualitative variables, and descriptive measures for the quantitative ones. a two-variate statistical analysis was performed in order to determine the association among the qualitative variables with a significance level of 5%. results: 50.3% of the cases were classified as unilateral and 19.8% as bilateral. among the unilateral ones, 59.0% were located at the left side and 41.3% at the right side. 3.4% presented cleft lip, 12.4% presented cleft palate, and 12.8% presented cleft soft palate. 1.2% of the sample did not present pathology classification. in terms of gender, males represented 48.0% and females 38.1%; no data was found in 13.9% of the cases. concerning location, 87.3% of the patients came from the state of antioquia. as for age at the time of admission to the institution, 44.3% of the children were less than thirty days old. most parents were between nineteen and thirty years old. most medical records did not show reports on the father or mother£¿s family history, diseases during pregnancy or tobacco and alcohol consumption during pregnancy. conclusions: this study evaluated the clinical records used at the cl¨ªnica noel foundation. as a result, we recommend to homogenize the professionals who fill in the records and to standardize the instruments in order to generate reliable databases for future research.
%K cleft lip and palate
%K epidemiological characterization.
%U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0121-246X2010000200010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en