To cite: Magalhães M, Costa D, Brites A, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015211212 DESCRIPTION A 6-day-old newborn girl from an unremarkable pregnancy and vaginal delivery was observed for the first time by her primary care physician presenting facial asymmetry when crying. Physical and neurological examination showed facial asymmetry noted...

BACKGROUND Most cases of facial asymmetry involve yaw deformity, and determination of the yaw correction level is very difficult. METHODS We use three-dimensional soft tissue simulation to determine the yaw correction level. This three-dimensional simulation is based on the addition of cephalometric prediction to gradual yaw correction. Optimal yaw correction is determined visually, and an in...

The objective of the present study was to investigate frontal morphological asymmetry in the mandibular molar region in terms of tooth axis and skeletal structures using vertical MPR sections in jaw deformity accompanied by facial asymmetry. Subjects consisted of 15 patients with jaw deformity accompanied by facial asymmetry aged 17.4 years to 37.8 years. There were four men and eleven women. B...

Osteochondroma is rarely reported in the maxillofacial region; however, it is prevalent in the mandibular condyle. This slowly growing tumor may lead to malocclusion and facial asymmetry. A 39-year-old woman complained of gradual development of anterior and posterior unilateral crossbite, which resulted in facial asymmetry. A radiological study disclosed a large tumor mass on the top of the lef...

Condylar hyperplasia is a developmental disorder of mandible characterised by accelerated growth of condylar head of mandible either unilateral or bilateral. Rate of abnormal growth of the condyle determines the severity of facial asymmetry causing distress and rarely pain. It has a multifactorial etiology with increased prevalence in females. Two basic growth vectors occur with CH: horizontal ...

two hundred and twenty-eight patients who had developed bell's palsy were investigated in a prospective study. among them, 55% were male and 45% were female. the most common age of the disease onset was the third and beginning of the fourth decade of life. we found definite correlation between bell's palsy, hypertension, and diabetes its recurrence rate was 9%. the most important comp...