[The characteristics of orofacial clefts in small communities].

Aim: Establishing the prevalence of orofacial clefts in a community of institutionalized children and the correlations with sex, weight at birth, life environment, maternal age and children's associated diseases.

Material And Methods: The study was conducted on a batch of 37 living newly-born (15 boys and 22 girls) from 1987 to 1997, with orofacial clefts, institutionalized in placement centers from Iasi, who survived and were treated medical and surgical. The data were collected from the records found in the archives of these centers and were statistically processed with the EpiInfo 3.