Manifestasi Gambaran Radiografis Goldenhar Syndrome pada Rongga Mulut

What is Goldenhar syndrome? Goldenhar syndrome is a rare congenital disease with ocular, auricular, and spine anomalies. Incidents had been reported that happened between 1 : 5600 to 1 : 26000 live birth, usually dominant in males and on the right side of the patient. The etiology of Goldenhar syndrome is still unknown.

Clinical manifestations like facial asymmetry, microtia, unilateral coloboma, microphthalmia, epibulbar dermoid, lipodermoid, micrognathia, cleft palate, and cleft lip can be found in new borns. Medical experts and stomatologist can also find images of decline in mandibular ramus height, loss of teeth, cleft palate, cleft lip, supernumerary teeth, and tooth hypoplasia via radiograph.

There are a few treatments that can be done according to the age of the patient. There are essentially two approaches: either an early operation (during growth), or a late treatment (after the active growth period). The prognosis for individuals with Goldenhar syndrome is very good in cases without systemic association. These individuals typically have a normal life span and normal intelligence.

*tadaa* that’s the abstract of my thesis =) Yes, I finally completed and passed my thesis presentation *claps for myself* I’ve printed this and will be distributing these books to the department and library of my university in few hours time. Looking for reference to get this thesis done wasn’t really easy for me since it is a rare disease so at most reference, they are mostly predictions. While looking for references, I found this blog, written by a patient with Goldenhar syndrome. She writes about her life since young with this syndrome. It must be hard for her but she is tough, she made it. Her post tells me to be tough and be optimistic in facing problems in the future. We’re all lucky unlike these patients. So, do appreciate what we have and what is given to us =)

Letter to Santa

Dear Santa,

My friend, Joe, had told me to write a letter to you at least a week before Christmas. You would need a week time to get my Christmas present delivered it seems. Well, I really hope you would do that for me. This year will be the first year celebrating Christmas myself. This year will be the real lonely Christmas for me. I’m not going home due to study matters and so will be staying here in this cold town all by myself, far away from family. I wish for a safe stay alone in this town till my Malaysian friends are back here for their new semester. My family will be having holiday in Singapore this Christmas. How I wished I could join them. Too bad, I got to stay here to settle some matter.

There were too many things that happened this year which taught me a great lesson of life. Even though some are very harsh to me, but I appreciate the way they showed me what life means, what I would face in this cruel world. I turned 21 early this year where I celebrated my birthday with my family and my close family friends. My close friends celebrated with me a night earlier since they need to head back to their universities for classes. It’s the 2^nd year I’m celebrating Chinese New Year with friends in Medan. This year was a little different. I had reunion dinner with Kelvin’s family. I must say Drg. Suwito and Drg. Betty Laut are really nice people. They gave me feelings like I’m celebrating CNY with my family back in Malaysia. They helped me a lot here in Medan. Valentine’s Day fell on the same day as the first day of Chinese New Year. I celebrated my first Valentine’s Day. I couldn’t stop laughing when looking back at the videos recorded on the night my housemates and I had vodka together. Those faces of drunk housemates of mine are funny.

I had a short wonderful holiday later with my friends. I won’t forget my longest ride on a motorcycle in my life just to find the hot spring. It is fun riding on bikes with friends around the place, though tiring, but I enjoyed. I shifted to new house, living with new housemates early April. I followed my Indonesian course mates to Bukit Lawang for some odd jobs. I gained a lot and it was fun with Umaiyal, Navissha, and Banu in the room with a bathroom where we actually can see through and we made fun of each other LOL. I had my semester break later where I visited my brother who is currently studying in Malacca. Trip with family are the best. Of course, I went out with my besties, also attended a small gathering as secondary schoolmates reunion. Most of them looked so different now. 4 years really can change a person.

I attended Junior Clearkship. Students from the faculty of dentistry would need to get themselves present in the hospital for a week on duty. I learned and see a lot of new things. I broke up with my boyfriend by the end of August. I went home during Hari Raya. I’m glad to know there are so many people who actually care and love me. They support me. I told myself not to let these people down. I shall show them I can still lead my life and it will be better than before. Let bygones be bygones. Roger taught me that. I always bear these 4 words in mind. I’m lucky having Drg. Amrin as my lecturer who guides me in getting my thesis to be done well. He is a very helpful, kind and supportive lecturer. Since I’m a little free with my thesis, I helped Desi with her research.

We had a small BBQ birthday party for kiddo (Liang Jie). Too bad it rained that night so we ended up keeping everything back into the house but we had fun in the war of water and flour. Then it is time for Mid-Autumn Festival. I didn’t meet any juniors in campus during orientation week and this Mid-Autumn Festival gathering was the gathering I finally got to know 2 of my juniors, Jun Yang and Jack Loo. Next event of the year was CK’s birthday. We went karaoke and then celebrated in the juniors’ hostel. We almost cooked him up by throwing all sorts of spices on him. I remembered how I sneezed while recording video because of the pepper. I joined the Indians for their Deepavali dinner together in a hotel and found an amazing, breath taking night view. I love Medan the moment I was on the top floor of that building. I attended another odd job organized by Dental Student Committee. I started up my online business with Desi. I never thought this dream can really come true. It is finally the time for final examinations. Tomorrow will be my first day of exam.

This year is a total different year for me with loads of happenings. I’m glad to know more about my friends, about how true they are, how fake they are. I’m glad to know how supportive my friends and family can be. With all these happenings around, I believe I’ve learned and grow up. Christmas is around the corner, Fransisca told me she wants a Canon DSLR as her Christmas present. So, Mr. Santa, after my long summary of what had happened this year, I would say I wanted a machine to help me keep all these precious memories in case I would forget them one day. I didn’t want to forget how each and every one of the people around me gave me the lesson of life. I would like to thank Joe for giving me this idea to write to Santa and thanks a million in advance to Mr. Santa for your attention.

Warmest regards,

Pan Li Ting

Is RELIGION a barrier in relationship?

In a month time, I’ve heard about 3 couples breaking up and the reason is “Our religion’s different.” They promised not to hurt each other, not to force each other to convert into others’ religion, and will respect each other. I guess, like I said in my previous post, when he/she asked for break up, promise is nothing now.

We shall all respect others’ religion, not forcing them to convert their religion. That’s what I think we should do. I don’t understand why some people would promise now saying they would respect but convinced their loved ones to convert their religion in the end. I see many married couples with different religion. They can live together happily but why can’t some others do so too? Don’t you think it is useless for a person who said “Nothing can be done now, let’s break up.” So, now I see breaking up is really as easy as ABC. *sighs* what do you readers think about this? Is religion really a barrier in relationship?

- de Tinkerbell - | fashion cache is OPENING today

My online store is opening today. My partner’s mother checked my birth date to get a good day for my store opening. She knows how to read these it seems, and said even though I have a partner but since I’m older than my partner by months, so the reading shall follow mine. She also told me that it is best to start my business this morning from 7AM to 9AM. I woke up early this morning to check out my store online and then rushed to my lecturer’s dental clinic for some thesis team discussion and presentation preparation. I have a bad news and also good news to be shared. Bad news first? I prefer keeping good stuff at the end =)

Some of my supportive friends had added my store’s account in Facebook earlier when they knew I’m doing this. They even suggest my store to their friends. These made it easier for me to start adding people/consumers into my account. Too bad, due to this convenience, I guess I added too many people in just 10 minutes. Facebook admin thought I was spamming by adding unknowns into my account. I must declare. Those people I’ve added as friends this morning are all my university-mates. I do know them. So Facebook made me log into my account again and gave me this notification telling me they’ll block me from adding friends and sending message for 2 days. WTH?! That’s sad right? How can Facebook do this to me. My first Pre-Order session will end in a week time. If they forbid me from adding friends, how can I continue with my business T.T I wonder if Facebook is doing the same thing to other sellers online.

Well, don’t mind about that. I still can get friends to add me up as friends =) Be optimistic. When I’m done with all these mess Facebook is giving me, I received a message, checked my inbox and *taddaaaa* I got my FIRST ORDER! Can you believe it? I just got my store operating for less than an hour and I got an order of 5 items of my product already! This is a good sign isn’t it? I must THANK Joanne for supporting me! – de Tinkerbell – decided to give 5% off if you’re buying above 5 items. Consider this as Christmas SALE and also our OPENING promotion =) So girls, be quick to place your orders from us, - de Tinkerbell – Lil’ ting is waiting for your message XD

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the supportive friends around me, also far from Malaysia. Believe it or not, before I started operating this store, these Malaysian buddies already added me up as friends and clicked the LIKE button at my page. I’m so proud of you people! I miss you all back there really *hugs*

- de Tinkerbell - | fashion cache

I believe I’m one of the luckiest girls in this world. Many of friends of my age had experienced working. Me? NO! I never worked before unless you say helping out in my parents’ shop once in a while when I’m having semester break is work. Even in my parents’ shop, I don’t help them like my brother did. All I did there was collecting money from customers and give them the change. So where do I get my pocket money if I don’t work at this age?

I’m already 21 and I’m still getting pocket money from my parents like a little girl. Now that I’m not staying with my parents in Malaysia, they’ll transfer money to my account from time to time. Frankly speaking, I felt ashamed asking money from parents. Most of my friends had experienced working. I wanted to get a part time job too but I don’t have time for that. My semester break is always short so nobody would want to hire me. I had told my parents about my plan having an online shop, perhaps like those selling clothes and accessories. You can see a lot of those in Facebook nowadays. My parents are not highly educated. They don’t know computers. You talk to them about internet, they only know MSN because they used that to have video conversation with me =)

After a few months of planning and contacting, and *tadaaa* here I am to announce that – de Tinkerbell – will be opening this Monday (6^th December 2010). I’m excited! I’m worried at the same time. Yes, that’s the name of my online boutique. I have a friend as my partner. I thought having online business is easy BUT right now, I won’t say so. Preparation before I started this took a lot of my time. I’m starting to worry if I can cope up with my studies when I’m doing this. I know once I start with this small business, I can’t stop.

My partner and I had designed a logo for my online boutique together. So whenever you see this logo, you’ll know it belongs to us kay?

LOL. Friends, do support me with this new job of mine =) By just a few clicks, check out about - de Tinkerbell - and let's us be friends in Facebook to support me, also not to forget to LIKE our page in Facebook okay? Love you darlings !!