Case reports of congenital duplicated maxilla.
- Author:
Beak Soo LEE
1
;
Hyun Jung CHOI
;
Dong Mok RYU
;
Jung Hwan OH
Author Information
1. Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, Dental College, Kyunghee University, Korea. leebs@khu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- MeSH:
Congenital Abnormalities;
Growth and Development;
Maxilla*;
Neural Crest;
Neural Plate
- From:Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
2004;30(5):434-437
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Neural crest cells have embriologically important role for the development and growth in oral and maxillofacial region. If the early hereditary defect occurs or environmental factors affect these cells diminutive mesenchymal cells are disabled to make neural plate and decreased proliferation of mesenchymal cells result in hypoplastic development of neural crest. As a result, this brings about severe facial malformations such as various located facial clefts and/or loss or duplication of facial structure. These are two cases of accessory maxilla and zygomatic deformity with and without facial cleft.
