What is a dysmorphic face?

Only medical experts usually use the term "dysmorphic face", which means that one or more aspects of a person's face is somehow unusual. This can point out the basic health, or it may be completely harmless. Examples of conditions where the affected people have a dysmorphic face include a fierce floor and a Treacher Collins syndrome.

among individuals, facial features may vary, but most people have a face that falls within the generally accepted range of normality. When someone has a function that seems unusual, compared to the normal range, then this person may have health. Two or more abnormal features are a diagnosis of a "dysmorphic face" of a doctor. This shows that a person with unusual features could have problems with developing in the womb. Rather, the term is described only by the presence of abnormalities that may be a symptom. The word dysmorphic stems from Greek words for "bad" and "shape" and can be used to indicate other features of the body except the face that abnor haveMalo -developed form.

Most of the conditions that cause dysmorphic face stems from problems of development when the affected person was in the womb. During pregnancy, the child changes from the egg and semen into a cell collection and then into an organized cell system. Disruption of this process, causes, such as abnormal genes, environmental chemicals or even alcohol, can affect the organization of cells to a functional and normally looking child, including the face.

Fortress and cleft lip are the most common conditions that affect the child's facial features in the extent that the child has a dysmorphic face. When the baby's jaw, lips and the roof of the mouth Nermally evolves in the second month of pregnancy, and if problems occur, then the child could be born with a hole in the roof of the mouth and a gap in the upper lip.

Other possible conditions with which a child may be born with different genetic syndromes such asTreacher Collins syndrome. People with this health problem have face bones that do not grow properly, and so the characteristics that usually support the bone, such as nose, cheekbones and chin, strangely shaped. Goldenhar is another genetic disease and disabled children have faces that have development, with features on the one hand less than on the other side.

Although dysmorphic faces do not necessarily require change for functional purposes, some people with abnormal features or parents of children with facial problems choose cosmetic surgery to make the properties more into normal range. However, some people decide to maintain their natural features. If a child has dysmorphic features, the doctor usually examines further to check whether unusual features are a sign of more serious problems such as mental handicap or skeletal abnormalities.

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