As stated earlier, this pathology can be a cosmetically devastating physical deformity, causing social isolation and depression.
Culture seems irredeemable, "an ideological power complicit with the social order that fosters the deformities it laments".
Another problem of clefts of the lip (CL) is the physical deformity and the associated social and psychiatric morbidity [ 2, 3].
In male patients, although the breast does not develop in adolescence, the thoracic wall deformity causes great suffering, impairing social experiences and the use of bathing and sports clothes.
Bone metastases frequently result in pain, pathological fracture, deformity and neurological deficit and have enormous social and economic implications.
Furthermore, correlations between HV angle and SF-36v2® subscales suggest that in our sample HV participants with more severe deformity experienced less bodily pain and better social functioning.
I had the idea to work with secret cameras—I wanted to capture my own journey of isolation but also make a social commentary on how people react to people with deformities.
In addition to the cosmetic deformities, lymphedema causes impaired physical mobility, mental discomfort, social isolation [ 12], reduced quality of life [ 12, 13] and higher incidence of erysipelas [ 12, 14].
Contrary to this, our study suggests that oral appearance was not one of the main concerns of this population because the two least reported impacts were on the social performances, social contact and smiling and the least reported impairments were deformity, fracture, missing, space, shape, position and colour.
The Ekpo society uses black masks, often of naturalistic appearance and with movable jaws, to maintain social order and propitiate the ancestors; some of these masks represent disease and deformity.
