Horizontal lip length of children with unilateral cleft lip and non-cleft children at the department of maxillofacial surgery of Ahmadu Bello University teaching hospital, Shika-Zaria Nigeria.

Table 4: Horizontal lip length of children with unilateral cleft lip and non-cleft children at the department of maxillofacial surgery of Ahmadu Bello University teaching hospital, Shika-Zaria Nigeria.

	Mean ± SD
Pre-operative
Cleft side	14.90 ± 3.22^a
Non-cleft side	19.05 ± 4.50^b
Non-cleft children	19.21 ± 3.57^b
Immediate post-operative
Cleft side	15.93 ± 2.37^a
Non-cleft side	17.33 ± 2.07^b
Non-cleft children	19.30 ± 3.38^c
1 week post-operative
Cleft side	17.08±1.97^a
Non-cleft side	17.21 ± 2.03^a
4 weeks post-operative
Cleft side	17.35 ± 2.18^a
Non-cleft side	17.39 ± 2.18^a

Mean ± SD with the different superscript letters in the same period differ significantly at p < 0.05.