Surgical Workforce, Socioeconomic Status, and the Global Burden of Orofacial Clefts

PURPOSE: Orofacial clefts are one of the most common congenital anomalies, but this disease burden is unevenly distributed worldwide. Our hypothesis is that most of this burden falls on the countries with the smallest surgical workforce or lowest sociodemographic indices, rather than the countries with the highest prevalence of disease. METHODS: The Global Burden of Disease methodology was used to estimate prevalence and morbidity of orofacial...