Objective: To describe the correlation between parental migration and surgical outcomes in a child with a cleft lip and palate.

Materials and Methods: This was a cross sectional analytic study. Parents of children with a cleft lip and palate aged between 2 to 10 years were included in the study using structural interviews and medical records. The surgical outcomes of children with a cleft lip and palate were analyzed using SPSS Statistics 17.0.  Descriptive analyses, odd ratio and 95% Confidence interval (95% CI) were used to characterize the data.

Result: 49 participants between 2 and 10 years of age were enrolled. The prevalence of parental migration (migration of both the father and mother) was 12.2 percent. The surgical outcome was good estimated by judgment of those who were the cleft lip and palate patient’s relatives and had few complications. However, the result also showed that parental migration affected graceless speech development (OR9.75 95%CI=1.45,65.36) and parental migration was not associated with other outcome of surgery and complications

Conclusion: In most families of a child with a cleft lip and palate, the parents lived together with their child. However, in the families with migration of the father and mother, a child with a cleft lip and palate suffered difficulties with speech problems.