Dental team management for a patient with Klippel-Feil syndrome: case report

Spec Care Dentist. 2009 Nov-Dec;29(6):244-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1754-4505.2009.00101.x.

Abstract

Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) is a rare congenital abnormality characterized by a short neck, a low posterior hairline, and limited head movement. Occasionally, patients with KFS may also show signs of deafness, intellectual disability, cardiac malformation, palpebral ptosis, facial nerve paralysis, cleft palate, and scoliosis. Although some researchers have documented this syndrome, scant attention has been paid to craniomaxillofacial manifestations and dental treatment of patients with KFS. The objective of this case report was to describe the planning and execution of dental treatment for a 10-year-old male patient with KFS.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cephalometry
  • Child
  • Dental Care for Disabled*
  • Facial Asymmetry / etiology
  • Humans
  • Klippel-Feil Syndrome* / complications
  • Male
  • Malocclusion, Angle Class II / etiology
  • Malocclusion, Angle Class II / therapy
  • Mandible / abnormalities
  • Mandible / surgery*
  • Mandibular Advancement / methods*
  • Masticatory Muscles / pathology
  • Neck Muscles / pathology
  • Orthodontics, Corrective / instrumentation
  • Orthodontics, Corrective / methods*
  • Osteogenesis, Distraction
  • Retrognathia / etiology
  • Retrognathia / surgery*