Table 2.
Ethnic groups and cleft-types.
| Type of cleft | Infants with isolated clefts | Infants with non-isolated clefts | Infants with syndromic clefts | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | M | I | O | C | M | I | O | C | M | I | O | |||
| Cleft palate only | 73 | 17 | 5 | 14 | 96 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 249 | |
| Cleft lip only | Unilateral | 42 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 83 |
| Bilateral | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| NOS | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | |
| Cleft lip and palate | Unilateral | 65 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 144 |
| Bilateral | 17 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 65 | |
| NOS | 21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 35 | |
| Total | 230 | 52 | 13 | 24 | 166 | 53 | 22 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 608 | |
C Chinese group, M Malay group, I Indian group, O mixed ethnic origins group, NOS not otherwise specified (non-classifiable cleft sub-type in ICD 9 & 10).