Indian Journal of Mednodent and Allied Sciences
Open Access
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 2

Etiopathogenesis of Clefts of Lip and Palate – An Invited Review

1Assistant Professor, Oral Pathology FODS, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India

2Professor, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Mahe Institute of Dental Science, Mahe, Puducherry, India

3Head, Department of Community Medicinal, BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

4Senior Resident, Oral Pathology FODS, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India

*Corresponding author email id: diksh18@yahoo.com

Online published on 11 November, 2014.

Abstract

Orofacial clefts i.e., cleft lip (CL), cleft lip and palate (CLP), cleft palate (CP) alone, as well as median, lateral (transversal), oblique facial clefts) are among the most common congenital anomalies seen in humans.

Keywords

Cleft lip (CL), Cleft lip and palate (CLP), Cleft palate (CP) orofacialclefts, Syndromes