[Occlusal relation of upper canines in patients with complete unilateral clefts]. / Relação de oclusão dos caninos superiores em pacientes portadores de fissura transforame incisivo unilateral.

Aiming to evaluate the position variations of the upper canines in individuals with congenital cleft of the lip and palate which interfere in the final result of a prosthesis, we have done an analysis and a measurement of this alterations in casts of 208 patients with complete unilateral cleft before the prosthetic treatment. We have verified in the vertical direction, the infra-version and in the horizontal direction, the mesiodistal deviation of its relation of normal occlusion and the distance in relation to the mid line. The results obtained have become evident a frequent anterolateral openbite in the cleft side, besides a common deviation of the upper mid line, due to the general position of the upper canines on the side side of the cleft to the mesial.