OBJECTIVE To investigate the anatomical characteristics of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses in relation to the presence of sinusitis in patients with cleft lip and palate. DESIGN Retrospective survey. SETTING Tertiary care hospital. PATIENTS Forty-seven consecutive patients with cleft lip and alveolus with or without cleft palate. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The patients underwent compu...

Dental implants have been in routine clinical use for over three decades and are a predictable treatment modality. However, as with all other aspects of dentistry, complications occur. A 50-year-old female patient with complaints of a long ongoing unpleasant altered nasal airflow presented herself at the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam. Visual inspection of the right nasal cavity reveale...

Suday, O cber 8, 2017 RESULTS: There were 64 patients in the study. Thirty-seven (37) underwent closure with nasal lining flaps while 27 underwent closure using traditional techniques. The rates of alveolar fistula formation were 3% (1/37) and 30% (8/27), while the rates of non-alveolar fistula formation were 16% (6/37) and 15% (4/27), respectively. The lower rate of alveolar fistula formation ...

Nasolabial cyst or cyst invading the nasal fold is rare but it should be suspected in patients with nasal vestibule cysts. It is a non-odontogenic cystic lesion of epithelial origin characterized by extra bone growth on the maxilla. The diagnosis of nasolabial cyst is strongly suspected clinically and the size of the cyst can reach 3 to 4 cm resulting in facial deformation. CT scan confirms the...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Inferior turbinate hypertrophy and concha bullosa often occur opposite the direction of nasal septal deviation. The objective of this retrospective study was to determine whether a concha bullosa impacts inferior turbinate hypertrophy in patients who have nasal septal deviation. MATERIALS AND METHODS The electronic medical record was used to identify sinus CT scans exhi...

INTRODUCTION Malignant melanoma rarely develops in the mucous membranes. Statistical data indicate that rhinosinusal mucosal melanoma was reported in less than 1% of all melanic tumors and in 2-8% of all cancers developed in the nasal fossae and sinuses. Due to reduce and non-specific symptoms and a high degree of invasion away, patients come for a medical expertise in advanced stages of the di...

Nasal air flow was measured during the speech of 112 normal subjects (59 females and 53 males) ranging in age from three years to 37 years, six months. Flow was zero during nearly all oral consonant and vowel utterances, suggesting that velopharyngeal closure was air-tight. Flow occurred during all nasal consonants and during vowels adjacent to nasal consonants. These effects were interpreted a...

Mouse embryos homozygous for the loop-tail (Lp) mutation fail to initiate neural tube closure at E8.5, leading to a severe malformation in which the neural tube remains open from midbrain to tail. During initiation of closure, the normal mouse neural plate bends sharply in the midline, at the site of the future floor plate. In contrast, Lp/Lp embryos exhibit a broad region of flat neural plate ...

According to ancient Greek myth, the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria in southern Italy is home to Charybdis, a sea monster capable of bringing down the toughest ships by swallowing them whole. Of course, there was no monster and both ship and sailor fell victim to a whirlpool, an aquatic vortex resulting from a recirculating flow produced by the interaction of opposing currents. D...