Should left- and right-sided unilateral cleft lip and palate patients be grouped together when reporting the outcomes?

Objectives: Investigate associations between cleft laterality in patients with non-syndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) and oral-health, dental-arch, speech, audiological, psychological and nasolabial-aesthetic outcomes.

Methods: Secondary data analysis of the outcomes of 5-year-old children with non-syndromic complete UCLP identified from three studies: Cleft Collective (n = 155), Cleft Care UK (CCUK) (n = 266) and Clinical Standards Advisory Group (CSAG) study (n = 238). Outcome measures included occlusal assessment using the 5-year-old's index score, speech intelligibility rating using the CAPS-A Audit tool, audiological assessment using pure tone audiometry, nasolabial aesthetic assessment using the Asher-McDade tool, oral-health assessment using decayed, missing, filled teeth scores and parent-reported outcomes.

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour of the jaw: A rare presentation.

Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumour (IMT) is a rare entity of unknown aetiology and pathogenesis. It was initially described in the lung, although there have been reported cases affecting extra-pulmonary sites. The aetiology of IMT remains unclear, with current evidence suggesting that IMTs are neoplastic processes resulting from chromosomal translocations that often cause an overexpression of ALK tyrosine kinase.

Oral superficial haemosiderotic lymphovascular malformation: a rare presentation.

We present an extremely rare case of a 53-year-old woman with an intraoral superficial haemosiderotic lymphovascular malformation (SHLM), also known as hobnail haemangioma. SHLM is a rare, benign, vascular tumour first described as targetoid haemosiderotic haemangioma, with only a handful of cases reported to present in the oral cavity. The diagnosis was established following complete surgical excision of the lesion, and after 14 months, there are still no signs of recurrence.