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Cleft is about to become a compulsory notification like other diseases in Brazil by a new law. Every child born with cleft must be reported and the exact number of newborn babies with cleft, per region, per year will be known soon. The number of new cases has been estimated by the government by around 5000 new cases each year and only 150 has access to comprehensive care. The cleft epidemiology through the notification report will be performed by pediatricians and social workers at primary care around public and philanthropic maternities around the country contracted by the unified health care system (Sistema Único de Saúde [SUS]; Ministry of Health, Brazil). Thus, having a unified cleft classification will be of paramount importance as cleft epidemiology can be known in order to create strategies of care, direct public investments by allocating human resources and building infra-structure, and generating public awareness for this health problem (Raposo-Amaral and Raposo-Amaral 2012).
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Raposo-Amaral, C.E., Denadai, R., Alonso, N. (2018). Classification of Cleft Phenotypes. In: Alonso, N., Raposo-Amaral, C. (eds) Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63290-2_5
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