[Oral-facial-digits syndrome I: case report].
To report a case of oral-facial-digits syndrome I who underwent plastic surgery of tongue, palate and digital abnormalities. The tongue of the patient restored normal mobility approximately but the speech function could not recover completely. The function recovery of the patient depended on the degree of mental retardation, its possible mechanism was the mutation of OFD I gene.
Shao
Xian-Hong
XH
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Stomatological Hospital of Hangzhou City, Hangzhou 310006, Zhejiang Province, China. haoboshao@yahoo.com
Fu
Qi-Hong
QH
Liu
Yang
Y
Zhu
Bao
B
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009958:Orofaciodigital Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*