Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Instresting facts about Marfan syndrome.
A French pediatrician named Antoine Marfan first wrote about it after examining a 5-year-old girl who had extremely long arms and legs in 1896. And in the U.S., February is Marfan's Syndrome Awareness Month. And there is a crazy fact about Marfan syndrome: Pulling a tooth can kill a person with Marfan's Syndrome!!!
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But why can pooling a tooth kill someone with the syndrome? Does he bleed out or something?
ReplyDeleteyes, i think because Marfan syndrome can affect blood vessel, pull a tooth out can result in bleeding and can not stop.
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