Objective data and operationalized psychodynamic diagnoses were used to determine self-perception in male and female adolescents with orofacial malformations

Several research demonstrate that oral facial deformities have an impact on affected persons' and families' standard of living, socioeconomic and psychosocial well-being, long-term health, health-care utilization, and expenditures. The dependence on small and unrepresentative samples with inadequate measures on various crucial outcomes and confounding variables has been the fundamental constraint of most of these investigations. This is owing in part to the scarcity of large-scale datasets that provide detailed information on such topics, as well as the difficulty of access to them. As a result, there is a critical need to increase collaborations among craniofacial care providers, birth defect registries, and researchers in order to determine improve data collection systems, data needs, and form consortia that provide access and opportunities to further investigate the impact of oral system malformations on multiple outcomes across the lifespan.