Trends of cleft surgeries and predictors of late primary surgery among children with cleft lip and palate at the University College Hospital, Nigeria: A retrospective cohort study

• Afieharo Igbibia Michael ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Afieharo Igbibia Michael, Gbenga Olorunfemi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: afiemichael@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6622-5152

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• Gbenga Olorunfemi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Afieharo Igbibia Michael, Gbenga Olorunfemi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Adeola Olusanya ,

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

  ¶‡ AO and OO also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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• Odunayo Oluwatosin

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AO and OO also contributed equally to the work.

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria

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