Lip piercing

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among patients with poor brain differentiation (alobar holoprosencephaly) who may die in infancy from those with a better prognosis (lobar brain).  Soft tissue deficiencies with Tessier 0 clefts include the upper lip and nose. Agenesis or hypoplasia may result in a false median cleft lip and absence of philtral…

________________________________________________________________________ Could you imagine being a ten year old boy with a facial deformity starting school for the first time? Well, that’s what August Pullman is going through in R.J. Palacio’s book “Wonder.”August, also known as Auggie, was born with a disease called Treacher Collins Syndrome. This disease caused him to have many surgeries, thus the reason Auggie was homeschooled. Now that Auggie has improved his parents made him start…

Take, for example, cleft lip or cleft palate. Cleft Palate is a very serious disorder that requires surgery for correction. Even after correction, those with cleft palate still have speech trouble and are never totally normal. Cleft Palate is a physical defect that typically…

Craniofacial defects such as cleft lip and cleft palate which occur as an isolated condition, or may be one component of an inherited disease or syndrome are among the most common of all birth defects. Cleft lips and palates are frequent congenital craniofacial malformations, with an incidence of 1.5-2.5 per 1,000 live births. Children who have an orofacial cleft require several surgical procedures. Most large defects, also known as critical bone defects are successfully treated with allogenous…

August or Auggie Pullman is an intelligent young man in the 5th grade. He has a gene that makes him face all wonky so he had to have surgeries when he was younger. Even with all the surgeries he still looks wonky. All his life he has been homeschooled until this year. This year is August’s first year in public school. He starts to get bullied because he looks weird and has to do a few things a little different. So a fight goes on between him and his bully for a good bit of the school year. He…

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (The United Nations, 1948) outlines in article 25.1 that everyone is entitled to sufficient social and civil living standards. This encompasses the rights to food, clothing, shelter, access to healthcare and social security. In many privileged nations, copious amounts of people never give these rights a second thought. Most were born into an abundance of security. Unfortunately, many were not. The World Health Organization estimated in 2010 that over…

which is the soft back portion of the roof of the mouth. There is also a Cleft Lip which is where there is a physical split or separation of the two sides of the upper lip and it would appear as a narrow opening or a gap in the skin of the upper lip and this separation could extend beyond the base of the nose, which includes the bones of the upper jaw or upper…

Children’s hospital of Wisconsin, approximately 1 in every 700 live births; most cases (80 percent) occur in males. Cleft lip/palate are birth defects that occur when the lip or mouth do not form properly during pregnancy. The causes of orofacial clefts among most infants are unknown. Some children have a cleft lip or cleft palate because of changes in their genes. Cleft lip and cleft palate are thought to be caused by a combination of genes and other factors, such as things the mother comes in…

Bill Clinton and Independent Ross Perot in a contentious campaign. Bush had garnered the votes of the American people in the 1988 election under the pretense that taxes during his presidency under no uncertain terms, or as he famously stated “Read my lips. No new taxes”, would rise. Bush soon breaks this oath to deal with the rising deficit, this action resulting in a lasting effect on his popularity and perceived trustworthiness. Clinton ran his campaign almost primarily focusing on this…