Table 2.

Comparison of good outcomes between the Cleft Care UK (CCUK) study and the Clinical Standards Advisory Group (CSAG) study

	CCUK	CSAG	P-value
Structural outcomes
Facial appearance (% good or excellent)	36	32	0.107*
Dento-alveolar relationships (% good or excellent)	53†	30	<0.001‡
Oral health
Caries-free (dmft = 0) (%)	48	45	0.6‡
Hearing
None or mild hearing loss in better ear (%)	78	79	0.7‡
Speech
No hypernasality (%)	90	82	0.018‡
Intelligibility/distinctiveness (% normal)	56	20	<0.001‡
Psychosocial outcome
Child’s self-confidence not affected (%)	92	81	<0.001‡

^*Mixed effects logistic regression to account for the non-independence of observations from multiple observers.

^†This is based on the 198 children with models as the 49 children with photographs were excluded.

^‡Chi-squared test.