Title : Oral clefts - dental development anomaly. Review
Abstract:
Anomalies are any disturbances or abnormalities which occur due to any reason in the human body. Some are mild while others have serious consequences.Various anomalies prevail in head and neck region. Some are specifically important for dental branch and medical fields. In dental , an inrerdisciplinary approach is used to treat it. Cleft lip and palate are dental development anomalies. They are common and they should be studied by the dental and medical clinicians. These are of significance for society and the doctors. Oral clefts are these dental development anomalies which need special attention. Cleft lip and palate are common and these should be studied by the clinicians. Cleft lip- is the failure of fusion of the frontonasal and maxillary processes, resulting in a cleft of varying extent through the lip, alveolus, and nasal floor(an incomplete cleft does not extend through the nasal floor, while a complete cleft implies lack of connection between the alar base and the medial labial element.Aim of this is to study about cleft lip and palate and know about their details in patients so as to treat them well. It is known that clefts occur as dental development anomalies. These need to be diagnosed, examined, treated successfully. When clinicians take this issue as serious, only then the patients will be benefitted.This anomaly is well known to all. Awareness and knowledge both in patients and clinicians is needed.This is a team approach. Also it requires skills on part of the clinician. Investigations, if done timely, can do miracles for this problem.
