title: Influence analysis of cleft type and supernumerary teeth eruption in the prognosis of bone graft in patients with cleft palate.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of cleft type and supernumerary tooth eruption on the treatment of palatal clefts with alveolar bone grafts.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this article, medical records of 40 patients with palatal clefts and associated supernumerary teeth who were treated with alveolar bone grafting in the Hospital for Craniofacial Anomalies Rehabilitation were assessed. The patients were studied to assess the influence of supernumerary teeth and the cleft severity on the prognosis of the alveolar bone graft.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Forty medical records were included in the assessment. When the teeth in the cleft had an anatomic shape close to canine, we called them precanine. When they were very small or malformed, we called them anomalous lateral incisors. The teeth studied showed good prognoses and were more expressive in the preforaminal clefts (87.5%) than in the transforaminal ones (62.5%). Moreover, the transforaminal clefts presented a higher percentage in satisfactory and poor prognoses (37.5%). The authors found that supernumerary teeth influenced the maintenance of alveolar bone graft height and that transforaminal clefts presented a worse prognosis than preforaminal clefts.
authors.affiliation: From the *Field of Oral Implants; †Department of Surgery and Integrated Clinic, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Dental School of Araçatuba; Araçatuba Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP); ‡Hospital de Reabilitação de Anomalias Craniofaciais USP, Bauru, São Paulo; and §Department of Prosthesis, Dental School of Araçatuba, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Cristiano
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gaujac
authors.forename: Eduardo Francisco
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: de Souza Faco
authors.forename: Elio Hitoshi
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Shinohara
authors.forename: Renato Andre
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: de Souza Faco
authors.forename: Flávia Priscila
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Wirley Gonçalves
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Assunção
mesh_terms: D064728:Alveolar Bone Grafting; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D014096:Tooth, Supernumerary / Q000601:surgery*