FACE: Demographic and Clinical Spectrum of Oral Clefts in Clinical Cohort: A Focus on Phenotypic Heterogeneity and Sociodemographic Correlates

Thank you very much for inviting us.

So your article got a lot of interest because there's always curiosity about how others provide cleft care in other countries.

Can you start by providing some background information for us about what inspired your research?

Yes, Pakistan is very important with respect to cleft lip and palate because Pakistan has one of the leading burden and incidence of cleft lip and palate across the globe.

It ranks fourth globally for having the highest incidence of cleft lip and palate.

Moreover, Pakistan is a multi-linguistic, multi-ethnic population.

epidemiology and clinical heterogeneity.

With respect to cleft lip and palate and for broader congenital anomalies, Pakistan holds a very special place at Globe.

Yeah.

How long have you been working in cleft care?

I've been working since past two to three years on cleft lip and palate.

I have developed a keen interest in the epidemiology and descriptive genetics on cleft lip and palate.

And my aim is to explore each and every aspect of descriptive cleft lip and palate in my population.

So my aim and focus is to understand each and every factor, each and every aspect of cleft lip and palate in our population.

So this is also part of my PhD project, which I've been carrying under the esteemed supervision of my professor, Professor Dr. Sajid Malik at Human Genetics Lab, Kaidazim University, Islamabad, Pakistan.