. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 3.

Published in final edited form as: Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2012 Jan 24;50(2):201–206. doi: 10.1597/11-103

Table 1.

Frequencies (percentages) of nasolabial fold (NLF) discontinuities and nasal flaring in individuals with cleft lip/palate or superior orbicularis oris muscle (OOM) defects

	Facial feature or action
	NLF discontinuity, n(%)^b		Nasal flaring, n(%)^c
	−	+	−	+
No OOM defect	56 (70)	24 (30)	49 (61)	31 (39)
control	31 (76)	10 (24)	27 (66)	14 (34)
relative	25 (66)	13 (34)	21 (55)	17 (45)

OOM defect or cleft ^a	30 (50)	30 (50)	37 (61)	24 (39)
relative	11 (58)	8 (42)	11 (58)	8 (42)
cleft affected	19 (46)	22 (54)	26 (63)	16 (37)

includes 7 individuals with cleft palate only, as part of the phenotypic spectrum

P = 0.014; Fisher Exact Test

Non-significant