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DOI: 10.1055/s-0045-1807283
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Analysis of a Facet of Lip and Palate Malformations in Brazil: A Decade-Long Ecological Study

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Raissa Sucar Pereira de Araújo 
1   Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Potiguar, Natal, RN, Brasil
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Abstract

Introduction

Cleft lip and palate are malformations resulting from the nonunion or incomplete junction of facial development processes during embryonic life. Their categorization follows their embryological basis and relationships with the incisive foramen into three types: preforamen, postforamen, and transforamen. Surgical plastic interventions correct these congenital craniofacial deformities. Cheiloplasty is the cleft lip correction procedure and palatoplasty is the cleft palate correction surgery. As this is a severe public health problem, it is imperative to analyze the hospitalization stay periods and death rates resulting from this malformation in Brazil.

Materials and Methods

The present is an ecological study, that is, a retrospective, descriptive, and quantitative analysis of accessible public data from the Brazilian Unified Health System's (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS, in Portuguese) Computer Sciences Department (Departamento de Informática do SUS, DATASUS, in Portuguese). The data source was the SUS Hospital Information System (Sistema de Informações Hospitalares do SUS, SIH/SUS) and the Live Birth Information System (Sistema de Informações Sobre Nascidos Vivos, SINASC, in Portuguese) on cleft lip and palate from 2014 to 2024. Data collection occurred in May 2024.

Results

In the last decade, Brazil had 73,829 hospitalizations and 69 deaths of patients with cleft lip and palate.

Conclusion

This data supports the need for public policies on maternal and child health due to the proportion of this malformation in Brazil.

Keywords

cleft lip - cleft palate - health - medicine - surgery, plastic

Authors' contributions

RSPdA: data analysis and/or interpretation, statistical analysis, final manuscript approval, funding acquisition, data collection, conceptualization, study conception and design, resource management, project management, investigation, methodology, performance of surgeries and/or experiments, writing – original draft, writing – review & editing, software, supervision, validation, and visualization.




Publication History

Received: 03 June 2024

Accepted: 06 February 2025

Article published online:
30 April 2025

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Raissa Sucar Pereira de Araújo. Análise de uma faceta das malformações labiopalatais no Brasil: Estudo ecológico de uma década. Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica (RBCP) – Brazilian Journal of Plastic Surgery 2025; 40: s00451807283.
DOI: 10.1055/s-0045-1807283
 

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