Parents satisfaction with primary cleft lip surgery

The purpose of this study was to investigate parents satisfaction with the result of primary cleft lip surgery. Moreover this study will investigate the influence of educational factors, the severity of clefts, the number of children, on the level of satisfaction with primary surgery results cleft lip palate.

One hundred and ninety children were included in this study. Cleft evaluation profile was used to measure parents satisfaction, both mother and father were included in this study. Overall it can be concluded that the level of satisfaction of parents both father and mother, towards primary lip repair surgery are considerably high. Mothers were the least satisfied with nose appearance of the patient (4.2 %). The gender of the child (P = 0.03) and the type of lip abnormality (P = 0.001) were factors that had a significant effect on the level of mother's satisfaction with the results primary cleft lip surgery. Female patient gender and bilateral cleft lip abnormalities were factors that affect the level of parents satisfaction with the outcome of the operation.

The factor of parent education level had no significant effect on the level of parents’ satisfaction with the results of primary cleft lip surgery.