Cleft Lip and Palate Flashcards
How are cleft lip and palate caused?
Due to interaction between crania-facial and embryological processes
Likely due to issue w/ volume or failure of flow of mesenchyme = failure to fuse
What is cleft lip and palate?
Failure of fusion
How chart cleft lip and palate?
LAHSHAL
Dental charting - right to left
Lip, alveolus, hard palate, soft palate, hard palate, alveolus, lip
Difference LAHSHAL and lahshal?
lower case denote incomplete
upper case complete cleft
How denote left hand side complete cleft affecting lip, alveolus, hard palate and soft palate?
….SHAL
How chart complete bilateral cleft?
LAHSHAL
How chart incomplete cleft lip?
Depends on side
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What are incomplete cleft lip referred to as?
Forme Fustra
How to incomplete cleft lip present?
Defect vermillion border and minor degree asymmetry of nose
What is often cause of incomplete cleft lip?
Lack of failure rather lack mesenchyme
How to chart isolated cleft palate?
..HSH../…S….
Issue w/ isolated palatal clefts?
Speech
How do sub-mucosal cleft palate present clinically?
Bifid uvula
Blue translucent zone
Abnormal muscle insertion
What hx may see in sub-mucosal palatal cleft?
Hx of problems feeding
How common is CL&P
1 in 650 births
Aetiology of CL&P
Genetic
Environment
Likely genetic triggered by environment
What are environmental factors in CL&P
Anti-convulsant drug, nutritional defect, anaemia
Smoking, alcohol, obesity
Diagnosis of CLP?
Ante natal scan - around 20-40 weeks
Screening offered to all women