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An Interesting Case of Lower Lip Cleft with Syndromic Features


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1 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Vinayaka Mission’s Sankarachariyar Dental College, NH -47 Sangari Mainroad, Ariyanoor, Salem - 636308, Tamil Nadu, India
 

Observation of a patient named Sanjay, a 23 year old male, revealed a case of anatomical curiosity, an uncommon variant of a developmental anomaly and masochistic habit, an atypical median mandibular cleft with distinctive facial appearance and intellectual disability. Facial gestalt is characterized by a round face, the heavy horizontal eyebrows with narrow palpebral fissures.

Keywords

Mental Retardation, Over Growth Syndrome, The Median Mandibular Cleft, Tessier 30 Cleft.
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Authors

K. Divya Bharathi
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Vinayaka Mission’s Sankarachariyar Dental College, NH -47 Sangari Mainroad, Ariyanoor, Salem - 636308, Tamil Nadu, India
R. Kannan
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Vinayaka Mission’s Sankarachariyar Dental College, NH -47 Sangari Mainroad, Ariyanoor, Salem - 636308, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract


Observation of a patient named Sanjay, a 23 year old male, revealed a case of anatomical curiosity, an uncommon variant of a developmental anomaly and masochistic habit, an atypical median mandibular cleft with distinctive facial appearance and intellectual disability. Facial gestalt is characterized by a round face, the heavy horizontal eyebrows with narrow palpebral fissures.

Keywords


Mental Retardation, Over Growth Syndrome, The Median Mandibular Cleft, Tessier 30 Cleft.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18311/jade%2F2016%2F158641