Prevalence of orofacial clefts and social factors in Brazil

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...

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Main Authors: Katamara Rodrigues, Marina Fernandes de Sena, Ângelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Maria Ângela Fernandes Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontológica 2009-03-01
Series:Brazilian Oral Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-83242009000100007