The Orthodontic Update Archive

Figure 1 presents a patient whose caries is not controlled. It is generally felt that children with cleft lip and plate have higher caries prevalence than their peers. However, this belief is not substantiated by the systemic review by Hasslöf and Twetman,5 which included six papers and concluded that they were unable to find firm evidence for the assumption that cleft lip and palate children have increased prevalence of dental caries.