Elio Gizzi , MD
Director, Carniofacial Center
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
Residency: Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland, Oakland, CA
Board Certification: Pediatrics
Language(s): English
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Summary
Elio Gizzi, MD is the director of the Craniofacial Center at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland. He is a pediatrician specializing in treating patients with craniofacial defects. He specializes in using bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) to promote the body’s ability to make more bone when treating children with clefts and/ or craniofacial defects. Children's Hospital is one of the only hospitals in northern California to use this new protein.
Compelling Fact
Nearly 6,800 babies in the United States are born with oral-facial clefts every year. A cleft lip/palate occurs when the lip and palate fail to close together.
*Source: March of Dimes
http://www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/4439_1210.asp
Expertise
- Directs a craniofacial team that include oral surgeons, using bone morphogenetic protein to treat children with craniofacial anomalies.
- Long term care of patients with congenital craniofacial defects
Medical, psychosocial, and psychobiological needs of adolescents.
Bone Morphogenetic Protein
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are groups of protein that can induce bone and cartilage growth, helping reconstruct the bone needed to fix cleft palates, cranial defects and dental ridges like alveolar cleft.
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