CLINICOROENTGENOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF THE CONGENITAL AND ACQUIRED CRANIOFACIAL ANOMALIES

The aim of the research was to study the relationship between the X-ray changes in the bones of the skull, the structure of the upper respiratory tract and concomitant general somatic diseases in patients with congenital and acquired craniomaxillofacial anomalies. The study included 52 patients aged 1 to 3 and 3 to 7 years, with congenital and acquired lower micrognathia in 19 (36.53±5.3)% and upper micrognathia in 33 (63.46±5.3)%. There were used clinical methods (questioning, examination, palpation), instrumental methods (multispiral computer tomography, X-ray cephalometric analysis of the bones of the facial skeleton, oropharynx, and bony pharynx). The obtained results of the clinical and radiographic examination made it possible to assert that among the patients with congenital defects of the jaws, not only changes in the facial skeleton dominate, mostly in the form of upper micrognathia and, to a lesser extent, lower micrognathia, but also the presence of somatic developmental defects in the form of disorders of the nervous system, pathologies of ENT-organs and ophthalmic defects. The identified malformations caused the violations of a number of important functions: breathing, swallowing, chewing, and speech formation. This connection was followed in particular in patients with syndromic craniosynostosis, namely, underdevelopment of the skull base combined with upper micrognathia and retroposition of the maxillary complex in the skull. The frequency and spectrum of concomitant somatic pathology depended on the nature of dentofacial anomalies. All patients with upper micrognathia had craniostenosis with the deformations of the brain skull and eye sockets. Among the patients with lower micrognathia, all those examined were found to have disorders of the development of the ENT-organs.