Dental Approach to Craniofacial Syndromes: How Can Developmental Fields Show Us a New Way to Understand Pathogenesis?
Figure 2
Profile (a) and frontal (b) radiograph of a girl aged 9 years with a single median maxillary central incisor. Different developmental fields are marked on the radiographs. Green: occipital and cervical spine field (Oc). Purple: theka field (T). Light and dark blue: the complete mandibular field (Md). Yellow: frontonasal field (Fn). Red: maxillary field (Mx). Orange: palatal field (P). Note that the sella turcica is a borderline region between fields. This figure is reprinted with permission from European Journal of Orthodontics 2010:32:140-147 [5].
