“…As previously mentioned, Class III malocclusion may result from maxillary retrognathism and/or mandibular overgrowth, and both FGFR2 and FGFR3 may be related to maxillary retrognathism and/or hypoplasia, as evidenced by their involvement in cranial suture biology and craniosynostosis. Induced premaxillary suture fusion has been shown to affect craniofacial morphology, and implies that abnormal premaxillary suture function may result in Class III malocclusion (Ruan et al ., 2008). Moreover, constitutive gain-of-function mutations within FGFR1 and FGFR2 , and dominant-negative mutation of FGFR3 , are causing strikingly different phenotypes, all of which are involving craniosynostosis as a distinctive feature of an underlying syndrome (Wilkie, 2005).…”