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Burden of Cleft Disease and Opportunity for Impact

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The burden of cleft disease disproportionately affects low-resource countries. This chapter reviews the burden of cleft disease, the outcomes of patients who do not receive adequate care, and the potential impact of optimizing cleft care delivery.

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  1. Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Naikhoba C. O. Munabi

  2. Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, Hospital das Clinicas at the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Nivaldo Alonso

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Munabi, N.C.O., Alonso, N. (2021). Burden of Cleft Disease and Opportunity for Impact. In: Swanson, J.W. (eds) Global Cleft Care in Low-Resource Settings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59105-2_2

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