[Genuine ossification of cleft jaws in bilateral total clefts of the lip, jaw and palate].

Abstract

Report on the treatment of a female patient, now 18 years old, with a bilateral continuous cleft of the lip, jaw and palate, in whom genuine ossification occurred at the jaw clefts. The upper lateral incisors and both upper canines have aligned themselves regularly in this jaw. Until now natural bone formation in a cleft jaw has been considered impossible.