Dental Approach to Craniofacial Syndromes: How Can Developmental Fields Show Us a New Way to Understand Pathogenesis?

Figure 11

Profile radiograph of a girl with Down syndrome, aged 8 years 6 months. Note the enlarged thickness of the skull, absence of the nasal bone, deviations in the upper contour of the anterior wall of the sella turcica, malformations of the cervical spine, and maxillary retrognathia. Deviations of the skeleton occur in several craniofacial fields.