Morphology of facial bones in skulls with unilateral cleft palate

Rhinosurgery in children: developmental and surgical aspects of the growing nose

“…The combination of anomalies of the facial skull like deviation of the maxilla to the non-cleft side and retroposition of the molar complex on the cleft side, which develop in growing rabbits after surgically-made facial clefts, are similar to the anomalies earlier described for human skulls with untreated clefts by van Limborgh [59] and Atherton [58]. The answer to their question whether the cleft-associated anomalies are secondary to the interruption of the upper jaw c.q.…”

Transverse relationships of the infraorbital foramina in cleft and noncleft individuals

“…The fact that no difference in the transverse locations of the foramina were found in the cleft group based on sex also merits caution because of the small sample size. The finding of no difference in transverse location of the infraorbital foramina based on age is not unexpected since Atherton (1967) found little change in differences in vertical development of the cleft vs. noncleft maxilla with age in his cleft skull sample.…”

“…Ferguson (1979) has provided four possible explanations for this paucity of skull data. These explanations are as follows: (1) Atherton (1967) consisted of 15 specimens. These skulls represented the combined collections of museums in the United States and Europe.…”

“…These accounts did not provide any detailed information about overall skull measurements. However, cleft palate skulls were measured in studies by Van Limbough (1964) and Atherton (1967). They found that when the size of the maxilla and palatine bones on each side of the cleft were compared, the bones on the cleft side were smaller, in width of the palatine shelf, length of the maxilla, and vertical development of the canine.…”

"Avaliação das dimensões faciais transversas por meio de radiografias cefalométricas em norma frontal nos portadores de fissura labiopalatina unilateral completa"

“…As pesquisas realizadas em indivíduos apresentando fissura unilateral completa não operada mostram que o crescimento esquelético craniofacial não difere tanto dos indivíduos sem anomalias craniofaciais (ATHERTON, 1967;ISHIGURO et al, 1976;ROSS, 1987), com exceção da região da fissura, que apresenta rotação lateral do segmento pré-maxilar (ATHERTON, 1967;SHAW, 1998), segmento menor da maxila retroposto e distorção do septo nasal (ATHERTON, 1967).…”