1/31/17 Embryology of the Head, Face and Oral cavity TRUMP Flashcards
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What week does Central face development begin?
Week 4
What is on both sides of the nasal placode that result in medial and lateral nasal processes?
-Ectomesenchyme
What weeks do upper lip formation occur?
6-7 weeks
What merges to form the upper lip?
-Median nasal processes and the maxillary processes
What merges to form the primary palate?
-Medial nasal process
What merges to form the secondary palate?
-Maxillary processes (makes up 90% of the hard and soft palates)
What does congenital mean?
-Present at birth
What are the palatal shelves part of?
-The maxillary processes
If you have a defective fusion of the medial nasal process with the maxillary process what do you have?
-Cleft lip
If you have failure of the palatal shelves to fuse what do you have?
-Cleft palate
What is the most minimal manifestation of Cleft palate?
-Bifid uvula
Is cleft lift most common unilateral or bilateral?
-Unilateral
How do you treat cleft lip?
-Rule of 10 (be at least 10 weeks, 10 lbs, and 10 gram % of hemoglobin)
How do you treat cleft palate?
-The infant has to about 1.5 yrs
When someone has cleft palate do they usually have cleft lip associated with it?
-Yes
When is comes to clefting that is syndromic what is the most common form of clefting?
-Cleft palate only
What is found in someone with the Pierre Robin sequence?
- Cleft palate
- Mandibular micrognathia
- Glossoptosis
What causes nonsyndromic clefting?
- Maternal alcohol or cigarette use
- Folic acid deficiency
- Corticosteroid use
- Anticonvulsant therapy
What is the lateral facial cleft?
-Lack of fusion of the maxillary and mandibular processes
What is an oblique facial cleft?
-Failure of fusion of the lateral nasal processes with maxillary process
What ethnicity is most likely to get clefting?
Native Americans
What is the prevalence in different populations in clefting from most common to least common?
- Native americans
- Asians
- Caucasians
- African American
If you have a failure of fusion of the palatal shelves, but the mucosa was able to fuse, so you don’t see a hole what type of cleft do you have?
-Submucous palatal cleft
What does a submucous palatal cleft discoloration look like?
-Bluish