title: The syndrome of pit of the lower lip and its association with cleft palate.
abstract: The Van der Woude syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant developmental malformation usually associated with lower lip pits, cleft lip and palate. These congenital lip pits appear, clinically, as a malformation in the vermilion border of the lip, with or without excretion. Obligate carriers of this dominant mutation may have lip pits alone, cleft(s) alone, clefts and pits or neither. Here, we present a case report of a 10 year-old male patient with Van der Woude syndrome and a brief literature on its treatment modalities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Indira Gandhi Government Dental College and Hospital, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Bhavna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kaul
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Indira Gandhi Government Dental College and Hospital, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Nanika
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Indira Gandhi Government Dental College and Hospital, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Rakesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Indira Gandhi Government Dental College and Hospital, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Bhanu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kotwal
keywords: Ankyloglossia; Van der Woude syndrome; bifid tongue; cleft palate; pit on lower lip