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 …

Midline clefts of the lower lip and mandible are rare congenital anomalies. They may present
as complete or incomplete in nature along with associated bifid tongue and ankyloglossia …

Introduction The oro-facial clefts are very frequent congenital malformations, with many
clinical forms. We report an exceptional case of median cleft of the tongue, the lower lip and …

Objective: A 13-day-old girl with a left transverse facial cleft and a median defect of the lower
jaw is reported in detail. Left macrostomia was repaired using a W-plasty technique, and …

We report the unusual case of a baby with a paramedian cleft of the lower lip. In 1976,
Tessier described a classification of craniofacial clefts based on personal observations, and …

Median cleft of lower lip and mandible is a rare congenital anomaly described as cleft
number 30 of Tessier's classification. In minor forms only lower lip cleft is seen. We report the …

A case of midline cleft of the lower lip with cleft of the mandible and complete duplication of
the tongue is reported here. Median cleft of the lower lip, mandible and bifid tongue with …

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 …

This is a report of a unique case of lateral facial cleft (Tessier 7 soft tissue) combined with a
posterior maxillary cleft (Tessier 6 skeletal) and mandibular hypoplasia presented in an …

Midline crdniofacial clefts are very rare. In the largest series reported, the 6,500 facial clefts
observed and treated by Ortiz-Monasterlo et all over a ZO-year period, only 84 were …