Assessment of Intraoperative Blood Loss during Oral and Maxillofacial Surgical Procedures in a Nigerian Tertiary Health Care Center

Table 3

Estimated blood loss, duration of surgery, and values of fifty-six (56) patients with 56 procedures on soft tissues.

Diagnosis	Treatment	Estimated blood loss; Mean (SD) (mls)	Duration of surgery Mean (SD) (mins)	coefficient	Significance level; value 0.05
Unilateral cleft lip	Millard’s repair	10.4 (10.8)	58 (76)	0.191	0.464
Cleft palate	Palatoplasty	142 (139)	127 (48)	0.081	0.749
Complete cleft lip and palate	Millard’s repair/palatoplasty	400 (265)	263 (58)	0.327	0.788
Benign soft tissue tumors	Excision	360 (164)	130 (82)	0.130	0.835
Malignant soft tissue tumors	Excision	1950 (778)	360 (81)	1.000	0.009
Palatal salivary gland tumors	Excision	367 (293)	83 (40)	0.985	0.109

level < 0.05.