Sociodemographic Factors That Influence the Choice to Pursue Nasoalveolar Molding: One Pediatric Hospital's Experience.

CONCLUSIONS: There are disparities in patient choice of NAM at our center for children with complete cleft lip. African American patient families were less likely to pursue this intervention. A stronger understanding of the barriers that lower income and minority patients face is needed in order to better characterize disparities in cleft care.
PMID: 32618203 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal - July 2, 2020 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Kimia R, Butler PD, Guajardo I, Magee L, Lowe K, Scott M, Wes A, Jackson OA Tags: Cleft Palate Craniofac J Source Type: research