The aim of this study was to measure and compare the dimensions of the dental arches on three-dimensional digital study models in children with and without cleft lip and palate before the primary surgery. The sample consisted of 223 digital models of children aged 3-9 months, divided into 5 groups: without craniofacial deformities, unilateral and bilateral incomplete cleft lip and alveolus, uni...

OBJECTIVE To review recent data on the aetiology of cleft lip and palate. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE literature search (1986-2003). STUDY SELECTION Literature and data on aetiology of cleft lip and palate using the following key words: 'cleft lip', 'cleft palate', 'aetiology', and 'genetics'. DATA EXTRACTION Relevant information and data were reviewed by the authors. DATA SYNTHESIS Cleft lip ...

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...

The ultimate stadium larva of Neuraeschna claviforcipata is described and illustrated based on an F-0 exuvia of a reared female from northern Amazonas State, Brazil. This larva differs from the other two known larvae of the genus in lacking the spiny lateral prominence of the mandible, and in having only a short spine each side of the median cleft of the prementum; labium is shorter and cercus ...

Objective Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is the most common forebrain developmental anomaly in humans with prevalence of 1/ 16, 000 in live borns that results from a failure of prosencepholon cleavage. In most of the cases, due to defective primordial mesenchyme, facial anomalies are observed like cyclopia, proboscis, median or bilateral cleft lip/palate in severe forms, ocular hypotelorism or solitar...

OBJECTIVES Children with cleft lip and palate universally present with otitis media with effusion. This prevalence has not been systematically studied. The purpose of the present study was to examine and compare the prevalence of otitis media with effusion, hearing sensitivity, and audiometry method utilised for assessment in children with and without clefts. METHODS Two groups of children (c...

RATIONALE Intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)]i) is regulated and signals differently in various subcellular microdomains, which greatly enhances its second messenger versatility. In the heart, sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) release and signaling are controlled by local [Ca(2+)]i in the junctional cleft ([Ca(2+)]Cleft), the small space between sarcolemma and junctional sarcoplasmic retic...

This chapter addresses the gross pathology and imaging of anencephaly, exencephaly and cephaloceles, and includes the clinical , epidemiologic, and pathologic features that have helped the authors to understand these conditions and to contribute meaningfully to their diagnosis and management. This paper specifically excludes the fronto-ethmoidal (sincipital) cephaloceles, the related nasal glio...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) isolated from dental tissues have also been studied extensively recently due to their relatively easy availability. The researchers working on improving a method for regenerating alveolar bone in patients with cleft lip and palate utilizing mesenchymal human marrow (hBMSCs). A systematic literature review 2010 2022 was performed using PubMed, Medline, ScienceDirect...