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This 9 page paper discusses fetal facial disorders including: cleft palate/lip, anophthalmia, microphthalmos, hypoterlorism, hyperterlorism. A definition is given of each as wel as the etiology, occurence rates, associated anomalies, appearances, classifications and differential diagnoses of the defects. Most current data available utilized and cited. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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to the parents of a child suffering from an abnormality. Defects such as facial clefting, fetal anophthalmia, fetal microphthalmos, fetal hypotelorism and hypertelorism are just a few of the defects
that may occur to an infants face. It can be stated that any defect to a child is traumatizing to both parent and patient, but those defects which affect the
face can be said to be particularly upsetting. When a child is born with a defect, one of the first questions that has to be on any parents mind is
Why? Or What caused this to happen? Unfortunately, many of the causes of fetal facial defects, such as cleft lip and palate, are not known at this time. Sometimes there
is not an easy answer and it seems from the vast amounts of information at hand, that no one agrees on what is causing these defects and why they are
occurring. This is because genetic investigations and DNA research is still in its infancy as well. But, for all that, science has been able to narrow down the probabilities in
some facial defects. When discussing fetal facial defects working knowledge of these various defects, their etiology, occurrence rates, associated anomalies, appearance, classifications and diagnostic aspects is a good first
place to start. For the purpose of this paper, each defect will be discussed in order of frequent occurrence rates to least occurrence rates. Where medical and scientific terminology is
utilized, definitions will be included. Most birth defects occur before a woman even knows she is pregnant. Typically, most pregnancies do proceed normally, but for ten to twenty percent of
the population, or nearly 875,000 per year, complications arise to complicate matters(Petrikovsy, 1998). Early diagnosis, early testing and early intervention become priorities in these cases. The most often occurring facial
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