The incidence of rare craniofacial clefts ranges from 1.43 to 4.85/100,000 live births. Most
craniofacial centers report an incidence of 9.4-34 cases of rare clefts for every 1000 clefts …

Purpose: To report surgical repair of a rare case of Tessier number 9 craniofacial cleft.
Methods: Case report. Results: Tessier number 9 craniofacial cleft is the rarest cleft anomaly …

Goldenhar syndrome, a variant of hemifacial microsomia, is a well-known developmental
anomaly of maxillofacial skeleton that is apparent at birth. The first and second branchial …

Tessier No 3 facial cleft (oro-nasal-ocular clefts) is the rarest and most challenging of all the
Tessier clefts. Reports on Tessier No 3 clinical findings, surgical techniques, and outcomes …

Craniofacial clefts are rare among facial anomalies, with an incidence of 1.5 to 5 per
100,000 births, and 1 per 100 cases of cleft lip and palate. The Tessier No. 4 oro-ocular cleft …

The number two craniofacial cleft as described by Tessier is an extremely rare cleft of
unknown etiology with distinct soft tissue and bony characteristics. It traverses the alveolar …

We report 3 patients with isolated cleft or coloboma of the nose–an extremely rare
occurrence. This entity belongs to no. 1 of Tessier's classification of craniofacial clefts …

Mandibular clefts are extremely rare, with less than 100 cases reported in the literature.
Almost universally, these isolated cases of lower facial clefting have been noted to occur …

Tessier Cleft 3 has quite a significant number of similarities with Tessier Cleft 4 when
embryology is observed, but its association with other facial malformations is higher than …

In 1952, Goldenhar described a pair of monozygotic twins discordant for hemifacial
microsomia, mandibular hypoplasia, auricular malformations, and epibulbar dermoids …