OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between the health status of permanent first molars and different craniofacial relationships among adolescents. STUDY DESIGN This is a retrospective study on patients' records aged 11-15 years. Sex, skeletal relationship, vertical growth pattern, malocclusion, overjet, and overbite were assessed. The health status of permanent first molars was recorded...

M ost predictions of growth are based on some mathematical model of the growth process, two kinds of which can be distinguished: (1) the transformed coordinate method of D’Arcy Thompson,Z5 applied to human growth by MedawaPg and to craniofacial growth by Moorrees and Lebret,2z and (2) equations producing curves descriptive of processes--some intended to be of general application (for example, G...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to study the relationship between the level of alcohol consumption in pregnancy and craniofacial characteristics of the neonate. DESIGN This was a prospective survey of a sample of pregnant women, stratified on prepregnancy level of alcohol consumption. SETTING The study was carried out at the public antenatal clinic of Roubaix maternity hospital. PARTICIPANTS ...

mulibrey nanism is a rare autosomal recessive syndrome caused by a mutation in the trim37 gene with severe growth retardation and multiple organ involvement. early diagnosis is important because 50% of the patients develop congestive heart failure owing to constrictive pericarditis, and this condition plays a critical role in the final prognosis. a 37-year-old female patient presented with symp...

The specific contribution of enlarged tonsils or adenoids to craniofacial growth remains unknown, and there is no agreement in the literature as to the significance of lip posture. This study assessed the separate associations of lip posture, sagittal airway size, and tonsil size with selected cephalometric measures. Clinical and cephalometric data of 207 children who presented for evaluation o...

Msx and Dlx homeoproteins control the morphogenesis and organization of craniofacial skeletal structures, specifically those derived from the pharyngeal arches. In vitro Msx and Dlx proteins have opposing transcriptional properties and form heterodimeric complexes via their homeodomain with reciprocal functional repression. In this report we examine the skeletal phenotype of Msx1; Dlx5 double k...