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

Figure 8

Panoramic radiograph of the dentition in a girl with SMMCI, aged 12 years 1 month, shown in Figure 6. Note the maxillary central incisor, the narrow nasal cavity, and the close-set eyes. Apart from the maxillary front the dentition looks normal. Deviations all occur within the frontonasal field, illustrated schematically in Figure 5.