Publications by authors named "Doorne J"

We examined in a cross-sectional study, 47 children (mean age 7.7 (1-16) years) with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) to find the prevalence of spinal deformities and to correlate these observations with anthropometry. The associations between dentinogenesis imperfecta, joint hypermobility and spinal deformities were also studied.

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Treatment of patients with maxillofacial defects includes not only the technical procedures involved in producing a prosthesis, but also the psychosocial aspects. In all cases, these patients must learn to live with a severe facial disfigurement. People born with congenital defects grow up with disfigurement.

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The field of maxillofacial prosthetics is concerned with the prosthetic reconstruction of missing head and neck tissue. A prosthetic replacement of an exterior part is termed an epithesis. Beautiful examples of such prostheses were described as early as the 17th century.

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We report clinical, orofacial and radiological manifestations in a 4-year-old girl and a 33-year-old female with the Gorlin-Chaudhry-Moss (GCM) syndrome. Typical findings in the GCM syndrome are short stature, stocky body build, midface hypoplasia, small eyes, downslanting palpebral fissures, conductive hearing loss, highly arched and narrow palate, malocclusion, abnormally shaped teeth, oligodontia, microdontia, low scalp hairline, hypertrichosis of scalp, face, trunk and limbs and genital hypoplasia. Radiological features include premature synostosis of the coronal suture, brachycephaly, and maxillary under-development.

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A roentgencephalometric study to compare the facial morphology of 18 individuals affected with Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome and 25 of their parents was performed. The main findings in the affected individuals were shortening of facial height and depth, cranial base length, a marked decrease in size of the mandible, and a steep cranial base. A change with age was found for some dimensions.

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Oral findings in 45 patients with Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome living in The Netherlands are compared with those from the literature. The main non-dental findings were thin upper lip, small oral opening, pouting lower lip, retro/micrognathia, and apparently higher arched, narrow palate. Cleft uvula, cleft palate, or, rarely, cleft upper lip can be part of the syndrome.

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An insight is presented of the psychological and social problems of patients with orofacial cancer. For most patients the diagnosis of cancer is the same as the idea of dying. The majority of the patients sees only a limited future perspective for themselves.

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A brother and sister with Martsolf syndrome are reported. The main characteristics of the syndrome are mental retardation, short stature, cataracts, hypogonadism and craniofacial anomalies including microcephaly, maxillary retrusion, pouting mouth, malaligned teeth and mildly dysplastic pinnae. The metacarpal and phalangeal bones are short.

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Roentgencephalometric anomalies in three cases of Warkany syndrome (trisomy 8 mosaicism) are described. These include asymmetry of the mandible with a wide gonial angle and a high and narrow symphysis; SNA (anteroposterior position of maxilla) and SNB (anteroposterior position of mandible) values indicate a backward position of the mandible. Other findings point to a disturbance in the vertical growth of the facial skeleton.

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