Introduction: Cleft lip and palate, the most common developmental deformity, is seen worldwide and the etiology involves a combination of genetic and environmental factors. The purpose of this study was to determine the maternal risk factors associated with the development of cleft lip and cleft palate. Materials and Methods: We conducted a case control study at the Women’s Hospital in Culiacan...

OBJECTIVE Evaluation of the presence of the maxillary lateral incisor in the cleft in patients with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate treated with the use of various surgical protocols. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective analysis was conducted as regards diagnostic models, panoramic radiographs and tooth images of the cleft of 75 patients with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate...

Cardiovascular disease is often related to defects of subcellular components in cardiac myocytes, specifically the dyadic cleft, which include changes cleft geometry and channel placement. Modeling these pathological requires both spatially resolved as well whole cell level descriptions. We use a multiscale model create structure-function relationships explore impact molecular on electrophysiol...

To investigate whether the craniofacial sagittal jaw relationship in patients with non-syndromic cleft differed from non-cleft (NC) individuals by artificial intelligence (A.I.)-driven lateral cephalometric (Late. Ceph.) analysis. The study group comprised 123 subjects different types of clefts including 29 = BCLP (bilateral lip and palate), 41 UCLP (unilateral 9 UCLA alveolus), 13 UCL lip) NC ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Hearing impairment is one of the associated problems seen particularly in children with cleft palate rather than cleft lip alone. This has received very little attention in the area of cleft care although research shows that hearing impairment affects language development The present study was carried not to find out the type and pattern of audiogram in cases attending a ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To investigate the association of cleft conditions and the development of secondary cholesteatoma following middle ear ventilation tube insertion (MEVTI) in children. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective cohort study of all children born after 1980 who underwent at least one MEVTI in a Western Australian hospital from 1980 to 2009 using administrative health data. METHODS The ...

ObjectiveTo evaluate the outcome of secondary alveolar bone grafting (SABG) in patients with cleft lip and palate at 16 years age to identify predictors associated surgical failure.Study DesignThis retrospective follow-up included 91 100 palates treated SABG a mean 9.2 years. The possible for failure analyzed were sex, dental development stadium, type cleft, side, tooth erupting into graft, cor...

Cleft-like boundaries represent a type of cell sorting boundary characterized by the presence of a physical gap between tissues. We studied the cleft-like ectoderm-mesoderm boundary in Xenopus laevis and zebrafish gastrulae. We identified the transcription factor Snail1 as being essential for tissue separation, showed that its expression in the mesoderm depends on noncanonical Wnt signaling, an...

BACKGROUND Pierre Robin sequence (PRS) refers to the association of micrognathia, glossoptosis, and airway obstruction. Cases with severe dyspnea due to upper airway obstruction immediately after birth are very rare. We here report two cases with PRS who developed severe dyspnea due to morphological abnormality immediately after birth and were rescued by fiberoptic nasotracheal intubation. CA...