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Winter 2002: Volume 27, Number 2
 
Pediatric Hospital Dentistry

Oral-facial-digital syndrome, Type I: A case report
N.M. King / A.M.E. Sanares

Oral-facial-digital syndrome is a group of congenital anomalies, which affects the face, oral structures and digits. There are nine subtypes. OFDS type I, is x-linked dominant trait mostly affecting females.
Reports of OFDS type 1 in Asians are extremely rare. This paper shows a case of OFDS type I, in a southern Chinese girl, who in addition to most of the classic features, had fusion of the mandibular canine and lateral incisor teeth.
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