INTRODUCTION: Gender based differences in medical treatment has been recognised due to conscious or unconscious reasons. The epidemiological study of a defined geographic population can serve as a means of establishing data important for the diagnosis, treatment, and counseling of patients with cleft lip and cleft palate. These conditions are sensitive topics of conversations, often affected by the stigma of physical birth deformities and cultural myths

Cleft lip, cleft palate, gender, primary repair, innovative study,.