“…In deciduous teeth, 37.37% children with clefts were caries free and 55.03% normal children were caries free, which is similar to the study done by Chapple and Nunn 3 but more than the study done by Dahllöf et al 5 and Turner et al 6 In permanent teeth, 24.39% children with clefts were caries free; this is similar to the study done by Hewson et al 7 but less than the study done by Paul and Brandt 8 in which 53.5% of children were caries free. The mean dmft and dmfs were signifi cantly more in children with clefts as compared with children without clefts, which is similar to the studies done by Chapple and Nunn, 3 Hewson et al, 7 and Paul and Brandt, 8 and more than the study done by Bokhout et al 9 However, the mean caries experience in the present study was less than that in the other studies, which considered caries among children with cleft only, by Bian et al 10 (dmft, 3.7 ± 3.3),…”