Oral Health-Related Quality of Life of Children Born With Orofacial Clefts in Ethiopia and Their Parents.

Objective: To assess the oral health-related quality of life (OH-RQoL) using a translated standardized measure in an understudied population of Ethiopian children born with orofacial clefts (OFCs) and their parents.

Methods: Using a descriptive study design, we assessed the OH-RQoL of 41 patients with OFCs between the ages of 8 and 17 years and their parents. Participants received multidisciplinary cleft care from 2008 to 2016.

Foreign Bodies Simulating a Congenital Palatal Fistula and Vascular Anomaly.

Foreign bodies embedded in the palate are uncommon findings and may occasionally mimic oral lesions. In the majority of the cases, foreign body embedment in the palate happens in infants and children who are unable to give history. Physical examination in the oral cavity of this group of patients in order to arrive at a definitive diagnosis is limited.

Analysis of early neonatal deaths in Yekatit 12 hospital, Addis Ababa.

Background: Worldwide approximately 4 million newborns die each year. Three quarters of the neonatal deaths happen in the first week after birth.

Objective: The objective is to study the factors associated with early neonatal deaths and the clinical causes of these deaths.