Características faciales y cefalométricas de pacientes con labio y paladar hendido no sindrómico y sus familiares sin lph atendidos en las clínicas odontológicas de la usta: Análisis preliminar

Abstract

The Cleft Lip and Palate (LPH) is known as an embryological defect caused during the formation of the face; It usually occurs between the fourth and seventh week of gestation, its etiology has been associated with various factors such as genetic and environmental. Objective: This case-control study compared the facial and cephalometric characteristics of patients with a non-syndromic cleft lip and palate and their relatives without LPH treated at the dental clinics of the Santo Tomas University (USTA). Materials and methods: For this, 20 cases of non-syndromic LPH patients and 37 controls corresponding to their family nuclei were selected. The median age in the cases was 10 years (Range 5-25 years) and in the controls it was 30 years (Range 3-60 years). To establish the association between the outcome under study and the other characteristics evaluated, a bivariate analysis was performed. Results: of the 19 measurements evaluated, 7 presented a statistically significant association with the LPH. In the present study, no correlation was identified in the evaluated measurements. Conclusions: The presence of LPH with low socioeconomic strata was also evidenced. In relation to cephalometric characteristics, concave profiles, maxillary hypoplasia and the short upper lip appeared more frequently in patients with PHL than in the control group.