Volume 26, Issue 120, February 2022

Craniofacial Cleft -Tessier 1-13: A unique enigmatic challenge

Shweta Patil^1♦, Anendd Jadhav², Apoorva Mishra³, Nitin Bhola⁴

¹Postgraduate (PG) student, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sharad Pawar Dental Colleg, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (DMIMS) , Sawangi (M), Wardha, India
²Associate Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sharad Pawar Dental College, DMIMS, Sawangi (M), Wardha, India
³Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sharad Pawar Dental College, DMIMS, Sawangi (M), Wardha, India
⁴Professor and Head, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sharad Pawar Dental College, DMIMS, Sawangi (M), Wardha, India

^♦Corresponding author
Postgraduate (PG) student, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Sharad Pawar Dental College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (DMIMS), Sawangi (M), Wardha, India

ABSTRACT

The exceptional cases of facial clefts are undoubtedly a surgical dogma to the surgeons. These cases bring the surgeon into a state of surgical muddle. The uniqueness of these defects demands a systematic multidisciplinary approach over a period of time. The identification of the type of cleft is critical in order to sketch out the treatment algorithm for that individual case. Therefore these extremely uncommon cases ought to be documented for further reference and enhancement of the literature available. To the best of our knowledge, this would be the sixth case of Tessier Cleft 1-13 to be documented.

Keywords: Tessier cleft 1-13, facial cleft, hypertelorism, encephalocele

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms59e2068

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i120/ms59e2068

Published: 04 February 2022