Identifying the effect of cleft type, deprivation and ethnicity on speech and dental outcomes in UK cleft patients: A multi-centred study

Centre‐level variation in dental treatment and oral health and individual‐ and area‐level predictors of oral health in 5‐year‐old children with non‐syndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate: the Cleft Care UK study. Part 3

“…Deprivation has been associated with a higher consumption of non‐milk extrinsic sugars and with lesser use of fluoride toothpastes, both factors associated with a greater caries risk . This is consistent with findings from other studies in the general population and suggests that deprivation is an important risk factor in children with cleft lip and palate …”

Centre‐level variation in speech outcome and interventions, and factors associated with poor speech outcomes in 5‐year‐old children with non‐syndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate: The Cleft Care UK study. Part 4

“…Our finding that poor articulation is likely to be more prevalent in boys is consistent with the Scandcleft study, who also reported that boys had lower scores than girls on their articulation measure. In contrast, measures of deprivation were not strong predictors of speech outcomes in this data set, a similar finding to the study by Choa et al …”

The Cleft Care UK study. Part 4: perceptual speech outcomes

“…Summary of 34 studies where recordings of children with cleft palate were reviewed [median and range shown ]. The horizontal bar is the median, and the vertical bar is the range of estimates across studies.…”

“…Over the next 5 years, the CAPS‐A was developed and tested for its reliability, validity and applicability . This has been adopted as the UK's national audit outcome tool and has been used in many studies since . In addition, the Americleft Speech Group has adopted this tool for their outcome reporting .…”