Sentences with phrase «facial deformities»

Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER tells the incredibly inspiring and heart - warming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial deformity who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

That's what eventually seems to happen once Johansson abducts a man with severe facial deformities and, in a weirdly touching series of scenes, shows hints of sympathy for her deeply lonely, Elephant Man - like prey.

Middle - schoolers and their families love the story of Auggie, a 10 - year - old with facial deformity who for the first time attends school in 5th grade.

Next, the team added both noggin and retinoic acid, a derivative of vitamin A, based on previous work showing that too much vitamin A causes facial deformities in mice and chickens.

The new work, described in the 20 December issue of Nature, may eventually shed light on facial deformities in people, enhancing prevention and treatment.

The team at Operation Smile consist of medical volunteers who provide free physical exams and reconstructive surgery for children and young adults with cleft lips, palates and other facial deformities.

Researchers have known for decades that fevers in the first trimester of pregnancy increase risk for some heart defects and facial deformities such as cleft lip or palate.

«Study examines patients» willingness to pay to fix facial deformities.»

When she picks up a shy, disfigured man, praising his «beautiful hands» and lifting them to her cheeks, she seems oblivious to his grotesque facial deformities.

Auggie's a good - natured, funny and smart 10 - year - old boy, who was born with noticeable facial deformities.

' Wonder» is an effective if sometimes sappy adaptation of R.J. Palacio's story of a boy with facial deformities adjusting to middle school.

Wonder (** 1/2) Sturdy if sometimes sappy adaptation of the R.J. Palacio YA novel about a boy (Jacob Tremblay) with facial deformities enduring his first days at middle school.

Auggie has genetic facial deformities, and it's not the Halloween candy he anticipates; it's the one day with a level - playing field for him, as other kids wear their costume masks and he can simply blend in.

Gill traveled to Kenya in 1998 to assist with the Operation Smile program, through which doctors volunteer to surgically correct facial deformities for needy people.

After serving time in Camp Pro, a facility for professional offenders, he creates an alternate identity of an entertainer, Snake, so he can continue with surgeries to help children afflicted with acute facial deformities.

Symptoms include dwarfism, severe bone disease, including facial deformity, degenerative joint disease, enlarged liver and eye cloudiness.

There may also be swelling or facial deformities due to...

A prosthodontist deals with complicate and simple restorations of the whole mouth and treats facial deformities.

Adapted from the best - selling fictional novel by R.J. Palacio, Jacob Tremblay plays 10 - year - old Auggie — a boy afflicted by severe facial deformities caused by Treacher - Collins Syndrome — prompting his being homeschooled.

The screen adaptation tells the story of a young, fifth grade boy with Treacher - Collins Syndrome (a bone and tissue condition that causes facial deformities) who enters public school for the first time.

The team discovered that a certain subset of cartilage - making cells, known as chondrocytes, replicate themselves, make other bone cells and drive bone growth — findings that could lead to new treatments for children with facial deformities who normally have to wait until adulthood for corrective surgery.

specialty practices, such as oral and maxillofacial surgery (removal of teeth and correction of facial deformities), orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics (straightening teeth with braces or other appliances), endodontics (root canal treatment), periodontics (treatment of gum problems), prosthodontics (replacement of lost teeth) and pediatric dentistry (treatment of children)

Born with facial deformities, August chooses to attend «regular» school for the first time.

In humans, for example, loss of ALX1 leads to severe facial deformities.

Applying this facial process will help in clearing all facial deformities and treat * some skin cancers.

A young man is shown to have facial deformities.

Just around the film's halfway mark, the alien picks up a man with a facial deformity.

Despite all the pep talks, and the support of his father (Owen Wilson) and sister Via (Izabela Vidovic), the whole family is secretly quite concerned about how Auggie's facial deformities will be seen by his peers.

Lionsgate have obtained the rights to R.J. Palacio's novel, Wonder, securing Tremblay as protagonist Auggie Pullman — a young boy born with a facial deformity.

Born with a facial deformity, Auggie Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) finds it difficult to fit into a new school.

The film, adapted from R.J. Palacio's bestseller by Jack Thorne and Steve Conrad, finds Tremblay as protagonist Auggie Pullman — a young boy born with a facial deformity.

What: Based on the best - selling novel by R. J. Palacio and directed by Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Wonder centers on Auggie (Tremblay), a fifth grader with facial deformity, who is attending public school for the first time.

Thorne is the writer behind the upcoming film Wonder, about a boy with facial deformities who struggles to find acceptance in the fifth grade, starring Julia Roberts and Jacob Tremblay.

A young boy born with a facial deformity is destined to fit in at a new school, and to make everyone understand he's just another ordinary kid, and that beauty isn't skin deep.

Based on R.J. Palacio's 2012 bestseller, it tells the story of Auggie Pullman («Room's» Jacob Tremblay), a 5th - grader with a facial deformity, and the family and friends that make up his world.

Based on the bestseller, this film about a 5th grader with a facial deformity doesn't settle for easy sentimentality

Wonder is the story of a August (Jacob Tremblay), formerly home schooled by his protective mother (Julia Roberts) because of his facial deformities, and now about to embark on his first day of middle school — needless to say most hostile and tactless place a boy like August could find himself.

Auggie was born with a facial deformity and has undergone 27 surgeries.

She gradually begins to develop some form of empathy with her victims, a change that launches when she lures a lonely man with facial deformities and lets him go.

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower director Stephen Chbosky stays firmly within his poignant wheelhouse by adapting someone else's bestselling coming - of - age tale — this time R.J. Palacio's novel about a boy born with a facial deformity (Room's Jacob Tremblay) who struggles to fit in at his new school.

The heartwarming story of a boy with a facial deformity checked all the right boxes for first - weekend audiences.

Chbosky attempts to spread Palacio's message of acceptance It looks like this fall will be stirring up the feels in us with Wonder, a film about a young 5th grade age boy named Auggie Pullman, played by Jacob Tremblay (The Book of Henry, Room), who has severe facial deformities and to make matters worse he's -LSB-...]

Older Academy voters may recall the 1985 film Mask, starring Eric Stoltz and Cher, which was also about a kid with facial deformities and his mom, and feel Wonder doesn't have as much gravitas.

August was born with a facial deformity and has been homeschooled — until now.

August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school - until now.