Intranasal tooth in a patient with cleft lip and palate

Ectopic eruption into the nasal cavity is a rare phenomenon and even rarer among cleft lip and palate patients. A case of an intranasal tooth associated with cacosmia in a 5-year-old patient with cleft lip and palate is reported. Several previous surgeries had been performed to correct the patient’s...

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Autores: Andrade, Miguel Gustavo Setúbal, Marchionni, Antônio Márcio Teixeira, Oliveira, Marília Gerhardt de, Heitz, Cláiton
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFBA
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufba.br:ri/20464
Acesso em linha:http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/20464
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Cleft lip.
Cleft palate.
Intranasal tooth.
Computed tomography.
Descrição
Resumo:Ectopic eruption into the nasal cavity is a rare phenomenon and even rarer among cleft lip and palate patients. A case of an intranasal tooth associated with cacosmia in a 5-year-old patient with cleft lip and palate is reported. Several previous surgeries had been performed to correct the patient’s cleft. The patient was evaluated by computed tomography, and the tooth was removed from the nostril. The etiology of this phenomenon is discussed.