Evaluation of Alveolar Bone Reconstruction In Clefts With Early Or Late Secondary Bone Grafting: Use Of The 3d Kamperos score.

There is still no consensus on the optimal age for alveolar grafting. In order to decide on the success of this graft, the best known radiographic assessments lacks precision. Kamperos recently proposed a 3D CBCT score that simultaneously assesses alveolar bone height and thickness, as well as the nasal floor level.

New neonatal classification of unilateral cleft lip and palate part 2: to predict permanent lateral incisor agenesis and maxillary growth.

Objectives : To bring a neonatal classification system of unilateral cleft lip and palate and to correlate this classification with the distribution of the permanent lateral incisor and maxillary growth. Design : Retrospective with longitudinal follow-up. Setting : Tertiary.

Effects of growth on maxillary distraction osteogenesis in cleft lip and palate.

Purpose: The objective was to analyze the effects of growth on the long-term result of maxillary distraction osteogenesis (DO) in cleft lip and palate (CLP).

Patients And Methods: Retrospective study of 24 CLP cases with long-term follow-up operated for maxillary DO using the Polley and Figueroa technique: 10 patients were distracted during growth, while 14 patients were operated after their growth spurt. Preoperative (T0), 6-12 months postoperative (T1), and ≥4 years postoperative (T2) cephalometric radiographs were evaluated.

New neonatal classification of unilateral cleft lip and palate-part 1: to predict primary lateral incisor agenesis and inherent tissue hypoplasia.

Objectives: To bring a neonatal classification system of unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) and to correlate this classification with the distribution of the primary lateral incisor.

Design: Retrospective with longitudinal follow-up. Setting : Tertiary.

Differential recruitment of caspase 8 to cFlip confers sensitivity or resistance to Fas-mediated apoptosis in a subset of familial lymphoma patients.

Resistance to Fas-mediated apoptosis (FMA) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of hematologic malignancies. Recently, a collaborative study showed that germline Fas mutations represent a genetic risk factor for the development of Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Here, we report that transformed B cell lines from familial lymphoma patients show a range of sensitivity to Fas-mediated apoptosis with lymphocytes from two patients with a marked resistance to Fas-, but not p53-mediated cell death.