PURPOSE The patients with cleft lip and palate have a higher risk of cervical vertebrae anomalies than do patients in general population. The aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of various upper cervical spine anomalies in different type of clefts. PROCEDURES Lateral cephalograms of 128 patients (66 males, 62 females) with cleft lip and palate, and 125 (60 males, 65 females) ...

Previous studies have suggested that most fetuses diagnosed prenatally with cleft lip have multiple associated anomalies, that fetuses with isolated cleft lip/palate are uncommon, and that their ultimate outcome is poor (Lopoo, 1999). However, our clinical experience failed to make a similar connection. The purpose of this study was to examine the natural history and current outcomes of fetuses...

DESCRIPTION A 2-week-old infant with unilateral cleft lip and palate (CLP) is brought to clinic by his parents. He was born full-term and the only associated abnormality is a small atrial septal defect. There is no family history of clefting.

Background and aims. The aim of the present study is to determine the incidence of MTHFR C677 T and A1298C muta-tions in Iranian patients with cleft lip and/or cleft palate. Materials and methods. We screened 61 Iranian patients with cleft lip and/or cleft palate for mutations in the two alleles of MTHFR gene associated with cleft lip and/or palate: A1298C and C677T, using Polymerase Chain Reac...

Citation: Koul R (2015) Computer processable classification of craniofacial clefts. Different interpretations of the term " Cleft Lip " by clinicians and developmental biologists referred to by Wang et al. (2014) in the introduction of their article on evaluation and integration of disparate classification systems for clefts of the lip, mirrors my observations in an article on nomenclature in c...

Two families with non-syndromic cleft lip and cleft palate are described. The linear pattern of inheritance through several generations is difficult to explain by conventional multifactorial models. The pedigrees strengthen the suggestion that a dominantly inherited mutation exists with a major influence on clefting of the lip and palate alone.

Ectopic eruption into the nasal cavity is a rare phenomenon and even rarer among cleft lip and palate patients. A case of an intranasal tooth associated with cacosmia in a 5-year-old patient with cleft lip and palate is reported. Several previous surgeries had been performed to correct the patient’s cleft. The patient was evaluated by computed tomography, and the tooth was removed from the nost...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine the usage of potential teratogenic chemicals among cleft lip and palate mothers attending a multidisciplinary cleft clinic at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). Method: This is a retrospective study based on records of consecutive patients attending the multidisciplinary cleft clinic at KATH. Mothers of children with cleft lip and palate ...