ABSTRACT Because of multisystemic impairment in patients with Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, multidisciplinary care may be demanded since birth to assure breastfeeding. This report presents a case an infant that was facing breastfeeding difficulties because maxillary neonatal teeth. A 3 months old male syndrome referred Pediatric Dentistry Department two upper teeth causing difficulties. Clinical ...

Speech development in young children has been studied quite often in a linsi:uistic (mainly phonological) way, with respect to the production and perception ability of infants and young children (Menyuk:,1971;Locke,1983;Ferguson,1986;Jusczyk,1986). Development of children's speech and their acoustic-phonetic correlates, however, are still considered as an area of research in which many aspects ...

Ellis-van Creveld syndrome is a rare congenital genetic disorder having autosomal recessive inheritance. It is a syndrome affecting the Amish population of Pennsylvania in USA with prevalence rate of 1/5,000 live at birth. In non-Amish population, the birth prevalence is 7/1,000,000. The syndrome is characterized by bilateral postaxial polydactyly of the hands, chondrodysplasia of long bones re...

Ellis–van creveld syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive syndrome of the heart, skeleton and most of the ectodermal derivatives. It is caused due to genetic defects in the chromosome 4p16; it belongs to short rib-polydactyly group (SRP). It is characterized by short ribs, short limb, polydactyly, ectodermal dysplasia and congenital heart defects. The oral manifestation is one of the main charac...

The Ellis-van Creveld (EVC) syndrome is a chondroectodermal dysplasia and is characterized by the cardinal features of disproportionate short stature, polydactyly, hidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, and congenital heart malformations, along with other skeletal and dental abnormalities. It is a rare condition, with very few cases reported in the medical literature. It is inherited as an autosomal re...