Developmental Defects of the Oral and Maxillofacial Region
口腔及顎顏面區域之發育缺陷
江俊斌 教 授
台北市 常德街一號 台大醫院牙科部 電話:(02)23123456-6855
E-mail: cpchiang@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw
學習目標
1. 了解口腔及顎顏面區域之發育缺陷 之種類及內容
2.了解發育性囊腫之種類、臨床、X光 及病理表現
學習資源:Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, 2nd edition, Neville et al. pages 1-48
Orofacial Clefts
Upper lip
1. Midportion –
medial nasal process 2. Lateral portions –
maxillary processes
Medial nasal process
Lateral nasal process
Maxillary process
Primary palate
1. From medial nasal processes 2. Forms premaxilla
3. Includes 4 incisors
Secondary palate
1. Forms 90 % of hard and soft palates
2. From maxillary processes of
the first branchial arches
Palate formation
1. Palatal shelves – from medial aspects of the maxillary processes (6th week) 2. Tongue drops down
3. Palatal shelves rotate to a horizontal position, fuse one another, and fuse with primary palate and nasal septum (8th to 12th weeks)
Cleft Lip (CL)
Defective fusion of the
medial nasal process with
the maxillary processes
Medial nasal process
Lateral nasal process
Maxillary process
Cleft Palate (CP)
Defective fusion of
the palatal shelves
CL and CP
1. CL+CP – 45%
2. Isolated CP – 30%
3. Isolated CL – 25%
Lateral Facial Cleft
1. Lack of fusion of the maxillary and mandibular processes
2. 0.3% of facial clefts 3. From the
commissure to the ear
Medial nasal process
Maxillary process
Mandibular process
Oblique Facial Cleft
1. From upper lip to the eye 2. One in 1300 facial clefts 3. Failure of fusion of
lateral nasal process with
maxillary process or caused by amniotic bands
Medial nasal process
Lateral nasal process
Maxillary process
Median Clefts of Upper Lip
Failure of fusion of the
medial nasal processes
Median Maxillary Anterior Alveolar Clefts
A bony defect in the midline of the maxilla
between the central incisors
CL ± CP
1. Whites: 1 of every 700-1000 births 2. Asians: 1.5 of every 700-1000 births 3. Blacks: 0.4 per 1000 births
4. Native Americans: 3-6 per 1000 births
Cleft lip
Cleft lip and
Cleft palate
Cleft palate
Cleft
palate
Cleft lower lip and lower jaw defect
Isolated CP
Whites and blacks:
0.4 per 1000 births
Sex predilection
1. CL ± CP: male predilection
2. Isolated CP: female predilection
Male to female ratio for CL ± CP
1. Isolated CL: 1.5:1
2. CL + CP: 2:1
Male to female ratio for CP
1. Clefts of both hard and soft palates:
1:2
2. Clefts of soft palate only:
1:1
Cleft Lip
1. Unilateral: 80%
(70% on the left side)
2. Bilateral: 20%
Cleft or bifid uvula
1. The most minimal manifestation of cleft palate
2. Whites: 1 in 80 persons 3. Asians: 1 in 10 persons
4. Native Americans: 1 in 10 persons 5. Blacks: 1 in 250 persons
Bifid uvula
Submucous Palatal Cleft
1. Surface mucosa intact 2. A defect in underlying
musculature of the soft palate
Submucous Palatal Cleft
3. A notch in the posterior margin of the hard palate
4. A bluish midline discoloration occasionally
5. An associated cleft uvula
Pierre Robin sequence
Pierre Robin anomalad 1. Cleft palate
2. Mandibular micrognathia
3. Glossoptosis
Pierre Robin sequence
1. Constraint of mandibular growth in utero
2. Failure of the tongue to descend 3. Failure of fusion of the
palatal shelves
Pierre Robin sequence
Micrognathic mandible
+
Cleft palate
Retruded mandible
Results in:
1. Posterior displacement of the tongue
2. Lack of support of the tongue musculature
3. Airway obstruction
Cleft palate
Results in:
1. Poor appearance, psychosocial difficulties
2. Feeding and speech difficulties 3. Malocclusion
4. Missing teeth or supernumerary teeth
Timing of surgery
1. CL – first few months of life
2. CP – 18 months of age
Genetic counseling
Nonsyndromic cases
The risk for cleft development in a
sibling or offspring of an affected person 1. If no other first-degree relatives are
also affected – 3-5%
2. If other first-degree relatives are also affected – 10-20%
Genetic counseling
Syndromic cases
Higher risk, depending on the
possible inheritance pattern
Commissural lip pits
1. Small mucosal invaginations at the mouth corners
2. Failure of fusion of the embryonal maxillary and mandibular processes 3. 0.2-0.7% in children
12-20% in adults (develop later in life)
Commissural lip pits
4. Males>females
5. Unilateral or bilateral 6. Blind fistula (1-4 mm)
7. Saliva may be expressed from the pit.
8. Higher incidence of preauricular pits
Commissural pits
Paramedian lower lip pits
1. Persistence of the lateral sulci
on the embryonic mandibular arch 2. Bilateral and symmetric fistulas
3. Blind sinuses up to 1.5 cm
Paramedian lower lip pits
4. May express salivary secretions 5. Autosomal dominant trait in
combination with CL and/or CP (van der Woude syndrome)
6. May pass the van der Woude syndrome on to the offspring
Paramedian
lip pits
Double lip
1. Redundant fold of tissue on the mucosal side of the lip
2. Congenital – persistence of the sulcus between the pars glabrosa and pars villosa of the lip
Double lip
3. Acquired – a component of Ascher syndrome or results from trauma or sucking on the lip
4. More on the upper lip
Double lip
Ascher syndrome
1. Double lip
2. Blepharochalasis (瞼皮鬆垂)
3. Nontoxic thyroid enlargement
Ascher syndrome Edema of upper eyelids Blepharochalasis
Fordyce granules
1. “Ectopic” sebaceous glands in the oral mucosa
2. >80% in the population 3. Yellow papules
4. On the buccal mucosa and vermilion of the upper lip
5. More common in adults than in children
Fordyce’s
granules
Fordyce’s granules
Fordyce’s granules
Fordyce’s granules
Fordyce’s granules
Leukoedema
1. More common in blacks than in whites
2. 90% in black adults
50% in black children 3. 10 – 90% in whites
4. More common in smokers
Leukoedema
1. Diffuse, milky–white, opalescent appearance of the mucosa
2. Bilateral on the buccal mucosa 3. Diminishes or disappears when
the cheek is stretched
Leukoedema
White
spongy nevus
Leukoedema
Histopathologic features 1. Parakeratinization
2. Intracellular edema of
the spinous layer
Microglossia
1. Abnormally small tongue 2. Associated with
hypoplasia of the mandible
Macroglossia
1. Abnormally large tongue
2. Caused by vascular malformation and muscular hypertrophy
Causes of macroglossia
Congenital and hereditary 1. Vascular malformations
Lymphangioma Hemangioma
2. Hemihypertrophy
Macroglossia
Hemangioma
Hemihypertrophy
Causes of macroglossia
3. Cretinism
(glycosaminoglycan accumulation) 4. Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
Causes of macroglossia
5. Down syndrome
6. Mucopolysaccharidoses 7. Neurofibromatosis
8. Multiple endocrine neoplasia,
typeⅢ
Causes of macroglossia
Acquired
1. Edentulous patients 2. Amyloidosis
3. Myxedema 4. Acromegaly 5. Angioedema
6. Carcinoma and other tumors
Macroglossia
Acromegaly
Macroglossia
Amyloidosis
Macroglossia
Hemodialysis- associated
amyloidosis
(accumulation of
β-2 microglobulin)
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
1. Macroglossia
2. Omphalocele (protrusion of
part of the intestine through
a defect in the abdominal wall
at the umbilicus)
Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome
3. Visceromegaly 4. Gigantism
5. Neonatal hypoglycemia
Down syndrome
A papillary, fissured tongue
Ankyloglossia
Tongue tie
1. A short, thick lingual frenum 2. 2–3 of every 10,000 people 3. May have speech defects.
4. Surgery may be postponed until age 4 or 5
Ankyloglossia (Tongue tie)
Tongue tie, bifid tongue
Lingual thyroid
1. Ectopic thyroid between
foramen cecum and the epiglottis
2. Four times more frequent in females 3. In 70% of cases, this ectopic gland
is the patient’s only thyroid tissue.
Lingual thyroid
4. Symptoms: dysphagia, dysphonia and dyspnea
5. Hypothyroidism: 15–33% of patients 6. Diagnosis: thyroid scan using
iodine isotopes
7. Carcinomas arising in lingual thyroids – 1%
Lingual
thyroid
Lingual thyroid
Thyroid scan
: Uptake in the
tongue mass
Fissured tongue
(Scrotal tongue)
1. Heredity
2. Aging or local
environmental factors
3. Multiple grooves on dorsal tongue, ranging from 2 to 6 mm in depth
Fissured tongue (Scrotal tongue)
4. 2–5% in the population
5. The prevalence and severity increase with age.
6. A male predilection
7. Associated with geographic tongue
Fissured tongue
Geographic
tongue
Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome
1. Fissured tongue 2. Facial paralysis
3. Cheilitis granulomatosa
Melkersson
Rosenthal
syndrome
Cheilitis
granulomatosa
Hairy tongue
Associated factors
1. Heavy smoking habit 2. Antibiotic therapy
3. Poor oral hygiene
4. General debilitation
Hairy tongue
5. Radiation therapy
6. Use of oxidizing mouth washes or antacids
7. Overgrowth of fungal or
bacterial organism
Hairy tongue
1. Marked elongation and hyperkeratosis of the filiform papillae
2. In 0.5% of adults
Hairy tongue
3. Growth of pigment-producing
bacteria or staining from tobacco and food
4. Treated by periodic scraping or brushing with a toothbrush
Hairy
tongue
Sublingual Varicosities (Varices)
1. Dilated and tortuous veins on the ventral tongue
2. Occur in 2/3 of people
older than 60 years of age
Sublingual Varicosities (Varices)
3. Not associated with hypertension or other
cardiopulmonary diseases 4. May become thrombosed
or contain phlebolith
Sublingual
varicosities
Sublingual varicosities
Lateral soft palate fistulas
1. Congenital, a defect in the development of the
second pharyngeal pouch
2. The result of infection or surgery of the tonsillar region
3. Common on anterior tonsillar pillar
Lateral soft
palate fistula
Coronoid hyperplasia
1. Unilateral: osteoma,
osteochondroma or hyperplasia 2. Bilateral: common in males,
resulting in limitation of
mandibular opening
Condylar hyperplasia
1. Causes facial asymmetry,
prognathism, crossbite, open bite, tilting of the occlusal plane
2. Treated by unilateral condylectomy
Condylar hyperplasia
Normal condyles
Congenital condylar hypoplasia
Associated with mandibulofacial dysostosis, oculoauriculovertebral syndrome (Goldenhar syndrome), hemifacial microsomia
Acquired condylar hypoplasia
1. Trauma to the condylar region during infancy or children
2. Infections, radiation therapy, rheumatoid or degenerative arthritis
Condylar hypoplasia
1. Bilateral – produces a small mandible with a classⅡ malocclusion
2. Unilateral – results in depression of the face on the affected side
TMJ ankylosis
TMJ ankylosis
Resulting in condylar
hypoplasia, trismus
Bifid condyle
1. A double–headed
mandibular condyle
2. Anteroposterior bifid condyles
– traumatic origin (fracture)
Bifid condyle
3. Mediolateral bifid condyles – due to abnormal muscle attachment,
teratogenic agents, persistence of a fibrous septum within the
condylar cartilage
4. No treatment is needed.
Bifid
condyle
Exostoses
1. A row of bony hard nodules along the facial aspect of alveolar ridge 2. Males = females
3. In 1 of every 1000 adults
4. A mass of dense, lamellar bone with fibrofatty marrow
Exostosis
Torus palatinus
1. Pathogenesis: genetic or environmental
2. A bony mass along the
midline of the hard palate
3. Flat, spindle, nodular, lobular
torus
Torus palatinus
4. 20–35% in whites and blacks in USA
5. A higher prevalence in Asians and Eskimos
6. Females : males = 2 : 1
Torus
palatinus
Torus palatinus
Torus mandibularis
1. Pathogenesis: genetic and environmental
2. A bony mass along the
lingual aspect of the mandible in premolar region
3. Bilateral – >90﹪
Torus mandibularis
4. Not as common as the torus palatinus 5. More common in Asians and Inuits 6. Prevalence in USA: 7–10%
7. A slight male predilection
Torus mandibularis
Torus
mandibularis
Eagle syndrome
(Stylohyoid syndrome)
1. Due to elongation of stylohyoid process or mineralization of the stylohyoid ligament
2. Caused by impingement or compression of the adjacent sympathetic nerves or internal or external carotid arteries
Eagle syndrome
3. Vague facial pain, while swallowing, turning the head, or opening the
mouth
4. Other symptoms including dysphagia, dysphonia, otalgia, headache,
dizziness, and transient syncope
Eagle syndrome
5. Treated by local injection of corticosteroids or by partial
surgical excision of the elongated styloid process or mineralized
stylohyoid ligament
Eagle
syndrome
Stylohyoid
syndrome
Stafne defect (Stafne bone cyst)
(Lingual mandibular salivary gland depression)
1. Focal concavity of the cortical bone on the lingual surface of the mandible 2. Near the mandibular angle or
sometimes at the anterior mandible
3. A radiolucency below the mandibular canal in the posterior mandible
Stafne defect
4. Defects containing salivary gland tissue, muscle, fibrous tissue, blood vessels, fat or lymphoid tissue
5. Posterior Stafne defects – in 0.3% of panoramic radiographs
6. A male predilection (80–90% of all cases)
Stafne defect
7. Occurs in middle-aged and older adults
8. CT scans show a well-defined concavity on the
lingual surface of the mandible 9. Sialograms demonstrate
salivary gland tissue in the defect.
Stafne
defect
Stafne
defect
Stafne defect (Lingual mandibular salivary gland depression)
Stafne defect
Lingual mandibular salivary gland
depression
Stafne
bone cyst
Simple bone cyst
Simple
bone cyst
Simple
bone cyst
Hemihyperplasia (hemihypertrophy)
1. Hemifacial hyperplasia, unilateral macroglossia
2. An increase in thickness of the epithelium with hyperplasia of the underlying connective tissues or muscles
Hemihyperplasia
3. 20% of patients are mentally retarded.
4. An increased incidence of abdominal tumors – Wilms tumor,
adrenal cortical carcinoma, and hepatoblastoma
Hemihyperplasia Right side
hemihyperplasia
Right side tongue hemihyperplasia
Progressive hemifacial atrophy
1. Atrophy of the skin and
subcutaneous structures in a localize area of the face
2. Affects the dermatome of one or more branches of the
trigeminal nerve
Progressive hemifacial atrophy
3. Females > males
4. Enophthalmos due to loss of periorbital fat
5. Local alopecia, unilateral atrophy of upper lip or tongue, unilateral mandibular hypoplasia
Hemifacial
atrophy, right
Hemifacial atrophy
Crouzon syndrome
(Craniofacial dysostosis)
1. Characterized by craniosynostosis, or premature closing of the
cranial sutures
2. Autosomal dominant trait
3. Incidence: 1 of every 25,000 births
Crouzon syndrome
4. Brachycephaly (short head)
Scaphocephaly (boat-shaped head) Trigonocephaly (triangle-shaped
head)
Crouzon syndrome
5. Shallow orbits resulting in ocular proptosis
6. Visual impairment, hearing deficit, headache
(increased intracranial pressure)
7. Underdeveloped maxilla resulting in mid-face hypoplasia
Crouzon syndrome
mid-face hypoplasia + ocular proptosis
(眼球前凸)
Apert syndrome
(acrocephalosyndactyly)
1. Characterized by craniosynostosis 2. Incidence: 1 of every 100,000 to
160,000 births
3. Autosomal dominant trait
Apert syndrome
4. Acrobrachycephaly (tower skull) 5. Ocular proptosis, hypertelorism,
visual loss
6. Retruded mid-face,
mandibular prognathism
Apert syndrome
Tower skull +
mid-face
hypoplasia
Apert
syndrome
Mid-face
hypoplasia +
Ocular
proptosis
Apert syndrome
Mid-face depression
Apert syndrome
Ocular proptosis
Hypertelorism
Apert syndrome
7. Open-mouth appearance
8. Syndactyly, synonychia
9. Mental retardation
Apert
syndrome
Syndactyly
Apert syndrome
10. Trapezoid-shaped lips
11. Cleft of the soft palate or
bifid uvula – 3/4 patients
Apert syndrome
Trapezoid lips
Apert syndrome
12. V-shaped arch,
class III malocclusion,
swelling of lateral hard palate
(accumulation of glycosaminoglycans, especially hyaluronic acid)
Apert syndrome
Swelling of lateral
hard palate
Apert syndrome
Visual loss
1. Chronic exposure of unprotected eyes
2. Increased intracranial pressure
3. Compression of the optic nerves
Mandibulofacial dysostosis
(Treacher Collins syndrome)
1. Defects of structures derived from the first and second
branchial arches
2. Autosomal dominant trait
Mandibulofacial dysostosis
3. Occurs in 1 of every 10,000 births 4. 60% cases represent
new mutations.
5. Associated with
increased paternal age
Mandibulofacial dysostosis
Clinical and radiographic features:
1. Hypoplastic zygoma, narrow face with depressed cheeks
2. Downward-slanting palpebral fissures 3. 75% patients – a coloboma, or notch,
occurs on the outer portion of the lower eyelid
Mandibulofacial dysostosis
4. 50% patient – no eyelashes medial to the coloboma
5. Deformed or misplaced pinnae and extra ear tags
6. Ossicle defects or absence of the external auditory canal
Mandibulofacial dysostosis
Hypoplastic mandible
Downward slanting palpebral fissures
Coloboma
Ear deformity
Mandibulofacial dysostosis
7. Underdeveloped mandible 8. Hypoplasia of the condylar
and coronoid processes
9. 1/3 cases – cleft palate
Mandibulofacial dysostosis
10. Hypoplastic or absent parotid gland
11. Hypoplasia of nasopharynx,
oropharynx, and hypopharynx
Fissural cysts
Arise from epithelium entrapped
along embryonal lines of fusion
Palatal cysts of the newborn
1. Epstein pearls
2. Bohn’s nodules
Epstein’s pearls
1. Occur along the
median palatal raphe 2. Arise from epithelium
entrapped along the
line of fusion
Epstein’s
pearls
Bohn’s nodules
1. Scattered over hard palate, often near the soft palate
junction
2. Derived from the
minor salivary glands
Palatal cysts of the newborn
1. Occur in 65-85% of neonates 2. 1-3 mm white or yellowish-
white papules
3. Keratin-filled cysts lined by
stratified squamous epithelium
Nasolabial cysts
1. Arising from epithelial
remnants entrapped along the line of fusion of the
maxillary, medial nasal, and
lateral nasal processes
Medial nasal process
Lateral nasal process
Maxillary process
Nasolabial cysts
2. Developing from
misplaced epithelium of
the nasolacrimal duct
Nasolabial cysts
Clinical features:
1. A swelling of the upper lip lateral to the midline
2. A peak prevalence in the
fourth and fifth decades of
the life
Nasolabial cysts
3. Females : males = 3 : 1 4. Soft tissue cyst –
no radiographic changes
Nasolabial cyst
Histopathologic features:
1. A cyst lined by pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium
2. Areas of cuboidal epithelium and squamous metaplasia are not
unusual.
Nasolabial
cyst
Nasolabial
cyst
Globulomaxillary cyst
1. Arising from epithelium entrapped during fusion of the globular portion of the medial nasal process with the maxillary process
2. Current theory – odontogenic origin
Globulomaxillary cyst
1. Between the maxillary lateral incisor and cuspid teeth
2. An inverted pear-shaped
radiolucency
Globulomaxillary cyst
Lined by inflamed stratified squamous epithelium or by pseudostratified ciliated
columnar epithelium
Globulo- maxillary cyst
Globulomaxillary cyst
Globulo
-maxillary
cyst
Nasopalatine duct cyst
1. The most common non-odontogenic cyst of the oral cavity
2. Occurs in about 1% of the population 3. Arises from remnants of the
nasopalatine duct
Nasopalatine duct cyst
Clinical features:
1. Common in the fourth to sixth decades of life
2. A male predilection
3. Swelling of the anterior palate, drainage, and pain
Nasopalatine duct cyst
4. A well-defined round radiolucency in or near the midline of the anterior
maxilla between and apical to the central incisor teeth
5. >6 mm in diameter (Incisive foramen is often <6 mm in diameter.)
Cysts of the incisive papilla
A cyst in the soft tissue
of the incisive papilla
Nasopalatine duct cyst
Histopathologic features:
1. Lining epithelium –
stratified squamous epithelium,
pseudostratified columnar epithelium, simple columnar epithelium,
simple cuboidal epithelium