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cleidocranial dysostosis
(redirected from Cleidocranial dysplasia)

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cleidocranial dysostosis [¦klī·dō¦krān·ē·əl ¦dis·ä′stō·səs]
(medicine)
A congenital defect in which there is deficient formation of bone in the skull and clavicle.


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Hundreds of radiographs and color photographs illustrate the placement and activation of appliances, palatally impacted canines, abnormal premolar orientation, infraocclusion, dentigerous cysts, traumatic impaction, cleidocranial dysplasia.
Cleidocranial Dysplasia Cleidocranial dysplasia is characterized by lack of normal development or absence of the clavicle bone, late ossification of cranial sutures, frontal and parietal bossing, shortness of stature and orodental abnormalities.
Olsen and his group came across Cbfa1 during a search for the genetic mutations that cause cleidocranial dysplasia syndrome (CCD), a rare human skeletal disorder.
 
 
 
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