Sentences with phrase «developed craniofacial»

The scientists heated chicken embryos to 40 ° to 41 ° Celsius for an hour and compared them with embryos incubated at a standard laboratory temperature of 37 ° C. Those chicks exposed to a high «fever» developed craniofacial defects, such as a shorter upper beak, and cardiovascular defects.

Not exact matches

Referrals to craniofacial centers for evaluation of deformational plagiocephaly and brachycephaly are increasing.8 This increase in deformations has been temporally linked to the Back to Sleep program advanced by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1992 that advises the avoidance of the prone sleeping position as a method of reducing the rates of sudden infant death syndrome.10,, 12,13 There is a delay in early gross motor milestones in children forced to sleep supine but these delays seem transient and have not been linked as yet to any longer term problems.14 Children who are encouraged to sleep on their backs and develop abnormal head shapes as a result are a different population than children who spontaneously restricted their movement in bed for one reason or another.

As a graduate student, Teran worked with plastic surgeon Court Cutting at New York University Medical Center using computer graphic methods to develop statistical descriptions of three - dimensional images of craniofacial malformations and propose surgical methods for their correction.

These powerful techniques — originally developed in the automotive and aerospace industries — are already being used to help surgeons solve complex problems in craniofacial reconstruction through analysis, planning, virtual surgery, 3D printing, and evaluation of surgical results.