True median cleft of the upper and lower lip occurs very rarely. Complete or partial facial duplication is an extremely rare malformation. Approximately 26 cases have been reported since 1900, spanning a wide spectrum of clinical severity. Most cases appear to share a number of features, including cleft palate, duplication of the tongue, orbital hypertelorism and macrostomia. An unusual patient...

The aim of this study is to present various morphologic aspects of the middle ear cholesteatoma, concerning both container (tympanic cavity) and content (cholesteatoma). There are two different aspects of the study: a mezoscopic study of the tympanic walls and the elements within the middle ear (ossicular chain, folds, ligaments, middle ear clefts) in order to evidentiate the critical areas (si...

Introduction. Orofacial clefts, is a group of conditions that includes cleft lip, palate, and both together. Symmetry the face can be obtained with primary nose reconstruction. The goal: Analysis patients unilateral complete lip treated or without nasal correction at time repair were compared to evaluate relevance early surgical Material method. 5 subjects operated on in 2022 by technique (PCR)...

Treatment philosophies in the management of alveolar clefts have changed greatly over the years. Currently. the most widely accepted protocol is for repair using autologous cancellous bone from the iliac crest during the stage of mixed dentition. Preliminary data suggest that the appropriate age for surgical repair during the secondary phase can be decreased without evidence of limitation of fa...

We report the case of a 43-day-old boy with branchio-oculo-facial syndrome (BOFS) and congenital heart defect. On clinical examination, he presented growth retardation, epicanthal folds, small palpebral fissures, telecanthus, broadened nasal bridge, lip pseudocleft, micrognathia, dysplastic and posteriorly-rotated ears, branchial clefts, short and webbed neck, supernumerary nipple, hypotonia an...

Facial clefts are among the most common congenital anomalies, with a point prevalence of approximately 1:500 to 1:1000 live births.1,2 Prenatal detection and diagnosis has been recognised as useful to facilitate prenatal counselling, to evaluate genetic risks, and to prepare the parents psychologically to accept and plan for neonatal surgery after birth. To improve the evaluation of these defec...

Median cleft of lower lip and mandible is a rare congenital anomaly described as cleft number 30 of Tessier's classification. In minor forms only lower lip cleft is seen. We report the case of a patient with median cleft of lower lip, severe ankyloglossia, cleft of mandibular symphysis, and residual cleft involving on right soft palate and associated with other facial clefts. These deformities ...