Oblique lip-alveolar banding in patients with cleft lip and palate

Abstract

We report an oblique lip-alveolar band, a rare banding of soft tissue that involves the lip and alveolus, which we have found in five patientswith cleft lip and palate (0.2%), compared with an incidence of the Simonartz lip-lip band of 5.7%). To our knowledge this has not beenreported previously. In two patients the bands affected the cleft lip and alveolus bilaterally, with or without the palatal cleft, and in three thebands were unilateral cleft lip and alveolus with or without the palatal cleft.