Professional paper

The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Case Report

Ančica Pećina-Hrnčević ; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ljiljana Buljan ; School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Clinical picture o f the fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is described by the example of three girls aged 9, 11 and 11 years. Besides mild to moderate mental retardation, all the three girls had a number of physical anomalies characteristic of FAS. Inheritance as the possible
cause of these defects was ruled out by genetic testing. Low birth weight, delay in the postnatal growth and development, microcephaly,
hypertelorism, malformed and low-positioned auricles, as well as skeletal alterations, were observed in the three girls. In two of them, epicanthus, strabismus, microphtalmia, gothic palate, crossbite and arachnodactyly were also found. Progenia, cleft palate, aplasia of the uvula, wide root of the nose, saddle nose, enamel hypoplasia, dermatoglyphic alterations, and cutaneous syndactyly and clinodactyly ° f the fifth finger were recorded in single cases each. One girl suffered from epilepsy. The orofacial region is especially affected in children with FAS, which necessitates specific dental care. Due to decreased intellectual abilities o f such children, their treatment is particularly difficult and requires specific approach and methods of work.

Keywords

alcohol fetal syndrome; dental problem

Hrčak ID:

100817

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/100817

Publication date:

15.12.1991.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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