Spinal complications in osteogenesis imperfecta: 47 patients 1-16 years of age.

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.

Facial disfigurement after cancer resection: a problem with an extra dimension.

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.

Extra-oral prosthetics: past and present.

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.

Craniofacial dysostosis, hypertrichosis, genital hypoplasia, ocular, dental, and digital defects: confirmation of the Gorlin-Chaudhry-Moss syndrome.

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.