“…T he currently favored hypothesis concerning the development of cleft lip and palate (CLP) is based on the assumption that this is etiologically a multifactoriat genetic system with a compound polygeny and threshold value effect [7,17]. In comparison with patients without CLP, CLP patients have a high incidence and prevalence of morphological, numerical and structural anomalies [1,4,5,11,12,14,15,21,23,24], with dental enamel hypoplasia and anomalies of dental form occurring with significant frequency in CLP patients [3,8].…”