Data and tissue bank of rare diseases with oral manifestations

A rare disease is one that is found in less than one person in 2 000. There are more than 5 000 of these syndromes and around 900 of them have some sort of craniofacial manifestation.

The goal is to create a data and tissue bank of rare syndromes with oral manifestations. The data bank will serve in the future as an important tool for many other multidisciplinary studies that will focus on identifying causative genes. This will facilitate the diagnosis and will help understand the genetic and biological components of the diseases. The end goal: a better care for the patient. There does not currently exist such a data and tissue bank in Québec, hence, it’s necessity.