Craniofacial anomalies and deformities involves mainly the face and the skull.  They are either present at birth, or developed lateral due to birth defect or following trauma, accident and tumours of face and skull.

The some of the commonest craniofacial anomalies are craniofacial clefts which involves the soft tissue, bones of face and skull like craniofacial cleft I, II, III, IV, VII and many more combination.  Some of these clefts involves eyelids and ears.  These anomalies need soft tissue correction in early childhood and correction of bony defect at later date.

Craniosynostosis is another common anomalies which includes the skull bone.  There is defect in the growth of the one or more skull bone leading to deformation of the skull which also affect the shape of face.  Occassionally these deformity leads to increase in tension in fluid spaces of brain and may affect the growth of the brain. It can also damage the vision.  Many children form more complex deformities and part of syndromic.

The common soft tumours of craniofacial  area are vascular malformation, neurofibroma and other facial bone tumours.   These tumours can extensively involve the facial structures and facial bone. They may need extensive resection and major surgery and it depend on the extent of problem.