basal encephalocele is a rare craniofacial anomaly. in the present paper we report a 10-year-old boy presented with cleft palate, congenital nystagmus, and hypertelorism. during preoperative evaluation for cleft palate repair, a pulsatile mass was detected in the pharynx. magnetic resonance imaging showed sphenoethmoidal type of basal encephalocele and agenesis of corpus callosum. neurosurgical...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed at carrying out a radiographic analysis on the prevalence of dental anomalies of number (agenesis and supernumerary teeth) in permanent dentition, in different subphenotypes of isolated cleft palate preadolescent patients. METHODS Panoramic radiographs of 300 patients aged between 9 and 12 years, with cleft palate and enrolled in a single treatment center, were retr...

background: children with cleft lip and palate generally suffer from inappropriate and inadequate feeding, resulting in insufficient weight gain leading to malnutrition and poor growth. we aimed to evaluate the nutritional and growth status of cleft lip and palate children before and after reconstructive cleft lip and palate surgery. methods: all cleft lip and palate children aging from birth u...

introduction: cleft lips and cleft palates are common congenital abnormalities in children. various chromosomal loci have been suggested to be responsible the development of these abnormalities. the present study was carried out to investigate the association between the suspected genes (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase [mthfr] a1298c and c677t) that might contribute into the etiology of the...

background: current methods of closure of the cleft palate result in the formation of scars and impairment of growth. distraction osteogenesis (do) might be an effective means to repair or at least reduce the size of wide clefts. this study investigates the biomechanical aspects of this process. materials and methods: do simulation was applied to reduce the size of a unilateral hard palate clef...

Cleft lip and cleft palate has got a high incidence in Asian births. There are different techniques for closure of the cleft. The furlows double opposing Z-plasty repair of cleft palate was first described by Leonard Furlow in 1978. Here we present 2 case of cleft palate treated with Furlows double opposing Zplasty.

BACKGROUND Nasalance is used to evaluate the velopharyngeal incompetence in clinical diagnoses using a nasometer. The aim of this study is to find the nasalance differences between Vietnamese cleft palate children and Korean cleft palate children by measuring the nasalance of five oral vowels. METHODS Ten Vietnamese cleft palate children after surgery, three Vietnamese children for the contro...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this present study was to compare, by means of 3D digital casts, the anterior transverse dimension of the dental arch of newborns with and without cleft lip and palate. MATERIAL AND METHODS The sample was composed of ninety-four children aged from 3 to 9 months divided into three study groups: Group I - children without craniofacial deformities (control group); Group ...