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Transverse relationships of the infraorbital foramina in cleft and noncleft individuals
1Department of Removable Prosthodontics, University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, Chapel Hill 27514.
Abstract:
An evaluation of the location of the infraorbital foramina in a transverse plane was undertaken by direct skull and radiographic measurements in unrepaired cleft palate and age- and sex-matched noncleft individuals. Physioprints were obtained on six dry skulls with left-sided clefts of the primary and secondary palates and on six age- and sex-matched noncleft palate skulls. The left infraorbital foramen was found to be significantly superior in a transverse plane to the right infraorbital foramen in the cleft palate skulls. No significant differences in transverse location of the infraorbital foramina were found in the cleft skull group based on differences in sex or age. Posterior-anterior cephalographs were obtained on 15 left unilateral cleft palate individuals and on age- and sex-matched noncleft palate individuals. The location of the infraorbital foramina in a transverse plane in the posterior-anterior cephalographs was found to be too variable to permit the use of parametric statistical tests. When the data on location of the infraorbital foramina were analyzed by a nonparametric statistical test it was found that the left infraorbital foramen was significantly superior to the right infraorbital foramen in the cleft palate individuals. The more superiorly placed infraorbital foramen on the cleft side was suggestive of a vertical deficiency of the maxilla on the cleft side.
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