Prevalence of orofacial clefts and social factors in Brazil

• Main Authors: Katamara Rodrigues (Author), Marina Fernandes de Sena (Author), Ângelo Giuseppe Roncalli (Author), Maria Ângela Fernandes Ferreira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica, 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of orofacial clefts in live newborns from 1998 to 2002 in Brazilian state capitals and correlate their occurrence with a number of relevant socioeconomic factors collected in the 2000 census. Data was obtained from the Public Health Hospital In...