Estimated incidence and clinical presentation of Noma in Northern Nigeria (1999–2024)

• Ramat Oyebunmi Braimah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ramat Oyebunmi Braimah, John Adeoye

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: robdeji@yahoo.com, ramat.obraimah@udusok.edu.ng, bunmibraimah@gmail.com (ROB); jaadeoye@connect.hku.hk, jadeoye@hku.hk (JA)

  Affiliation Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

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• John Adeoye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ramat Oyebunmi Braimah, John Adeoye

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: robdeji@yahoo.com, ramat.obraimah@udusok.edu.ng, bunmibraimah@gmail.com (ROB); jaadeoye@connect.hku.hk, jadeoye@hku.hk (JA)

  Affiliation Division of Applied Oral Sciences and Community Dental Care, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3493-1463

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• Abdurrazaq Olanrewaju Taiwo,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

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• Seidu Bello,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cleft and Facial Deformity Foundation, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Mujtaba Bala,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dental Sciences, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

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• Azeez Butali,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine, College of Dentistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Bruno Oludare Ile-Ogedengbe,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Dental & Maxillofacial Surgery, Federal Medical Centre, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi, Nigeria

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• Abubakar Abdullahi Bello

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Noma Children’s Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria

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