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Following the acquisition of CBCT scans, fourteen bilateral landmarks were selected. The distance of the bilateral landmark was calculated from the midsagittal plane on the cleft and non-cleft sides for both frontal and axial views. Tracings were done;the data obtained was subjected to statistical analysis;and intra-observer variability was checked with intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and two-way ANOVA. Subsequently, the measurements were subjected to paired t-tests at the 95% level of significance with Bonferroni correction. A significant reduction of pyriforme and an alveolar crest above the maxillary 1st molar were discerned in frontal analysis on the cleft side. In the axial view, the zygomatic arch, malar, porion and alveolar crest at the molar region were non-significant, but the alveolar crest at the premolar region (p &lt; 0.004)) was significantly decreased. In the frontal analysis, pyriforme and the alveolar crest above the maxillary 1st molar, and, in the axial view, premolar widths, showed significant reduction when comparing the cleft vis-a-vis non-cleft sides.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph17217786","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,26]],"date-time":"2020-10-26T02:34:54Z","timestamp":1603679694000},"page":"7786","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Frontal and Axial Evaluation of Craniofacial Morphology in Repaired Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate Patients Utilizing Cone Beam Computed Tomography; An Observational Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6611-6143","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anuraj Singh","family":"Kochhar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Former Orthodontist Max Hospital Gurgaon, Haryana 122001, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maninder Singh","family":"Sidhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, SGT University Gurugram, Haryana 122006, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4951-0506","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mona","family":"Prabhakar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, SGT University Gurugram, Haryana 122006, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ritasha","family":"Bhasin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G1G6, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gulsheen Kaur","family":"Kochhar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric &amp; Preventive Dentistry, National Dental College &amp; Hospital, Punjab 140507, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7354-1962","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Himanshu","family":"Dadlani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Periodontology, Kalka Dental College &amp; Hospital, Meerut 250006, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3769-9786","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gianrico","family":"Spagnuolo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1801","DOI":"10.1007\/s00784-016-1949-2","article-title":"Long-term mid-facial growth of patients with a unilateral complete cleft of lip, alveolus and palate treated by two-stage palatoplasty: Cephalometric analysis","volume":"21","author":"Kappen","year":"2017","journal-title":"Clin. 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