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CHARACTERISTICS OF CLEFT LIP AND/OR PALATE IN CHILDREN ATTENDED TO TREATMENT AT HANOI CENTRAL ODONTO-STOMATOLOGY HOSPITAL, 2019-2021
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Objective: The current study aimed to describe demographic characteristics and some characteristics of weight, detal health or challenges that children often face. Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 196 children under 15 years of age with cleft lip and/or palate who attended to treatment at Hanoi Central Odonto-Stomatology Hospital. Result: The proportion of male (64.8%) was higher than that of female (35.2%). The majority of children with cleft lip and/or palate were found in families with low or medium socioeconomic status and level of education (47.66%) and their father used to smoke and drink alcohol frequently. About 60% of children had challenges including eating and sucking, followed by problems with speech, communication and infections. Most children have normal weight but the rate of underweight was recorded quite high, accounting for 12.8%. Conclusion: The rate of male children with malformations was higher than that of the latter.The rate of children with cleft lip or cleft palate alone is over 2 times higher than that with these two malformations simultaneously. The parents hadlow or medium socioeconomic status and level of education. The percentage of mothers had been exposed to maternal passive smoking was quite high. Children often had dental problems, in which the most reported were lack of gap for teeth (45.9%), tooth position abnormalities (38.8%), and delayed teething (25.5%), while more than 16% of parents unknown about dental problems of their child. Summally, challenges composed of eating, sucking and dental health were the most common in children with cleft lip and/or cleft palate and need parental attention.
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Characteristics, Cleft lip and/or palate, Children, Hanoi Central Odonto-Stomatology Hospital
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