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What is Basilar Invagination (BI)?

Through our peer groups on Facebook, we sometimes get in touch with people with OI who have symptoms of the rare condition Basilar invagination (BI) without being aware of what it is and what they should do about it. Because there is so little awareness about this rare but serious complication, we would like to…

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Report from ‘See, Hear, Smile!’

The title and graphic identity of the Latvia meeting Jean Moitry and I attended in Riga is a reference to the Chinese tale of the three monkeys. One of them doesn’t see, the second doesn’t hear and the third hides his mouth. This is an optimistic message because the meaning of the parable is that…

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Video lecture BI

One of the invited speakers at See, Hear, Smile was Suken A. Shah from Wilmington, Delaware, USA who gave a talk about basilar invagination (BI). Unfortunately dr. Shah could not come all the way to Latvia, so the talk was given via a video lecture. The video lecture of Dr. Suken A. Shah’s talk about…
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See, Hear, Smile!

2 Weeks left until Early Bird Deadline! Are you a professional who’s interested in eyes, ears and teeth of people with OI? Or basilar invagination (BI)? Do you yourself have issues related to this? Then we invite you to take part in our seminar See, Hear, Smile! from June 14th – 15th in Riga, Latvia.…

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Flashbacks from Baltimore

The 2018 OIF National Conference, themed EXPLORE, gathered over 650 attendees and 50 speakers for a busy and memorable weekend in Baltimore, Maryland! The attendees of this summer’s conference represented seven countries and nearly forty US states. And on behalf of the OIFE I thank the OIF for the kind invitation to take part in…

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