WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY, cilt.42, sa.5, ss.1239-1247, 2018 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
This project explores the costs of cleft lip and/or palate surgeries in Palestine and Sudan, two low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), in the Middle East. Our purpose is to examine the veracity of advertisements from international cleft organizations claiming that "250 US dollars (USD) covers the cost of a single cleft surgery." We hypothesize that the actual cost of surgery is greater than 250 USD.