To cite: Madhan B, Arunprasad G, Krishnan B. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-204438 DESCRIPTION A 26-year-old man reported with the chief complaints of dry mouth, facial swelling and difficulty opening his mouth. His medical records indicated that he had been treated for nasopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma when he was 10 years old. He had ...

AIM OF THE STUDY Chemotherapeutic treatment in children and adolescents carries a risk of congenital tooth disorders and dentinoma. Study objective is to assess the correlation between tooth abnormalities, early complications of multidrug chemotherapy, and chemotherapeutics used in different antineoplastic therapies in children and adolescents. MATERIAL AND METHODS Enamel defects (development...

A case of a male patient presenting with unusual dental morphology, anterior supernumerary teeth, and agenesis of premolars associated with congenital cataracts, microphthalmia and anteverted pinna is described. Although 3 similar cases are in the medical literature, this is the first case in which the dental features are described in detail. Dental anomalies associated with many congenital and...

The most common root malformations in humans arise from either developmental disorders of the root alone or disorders of radicular development as part of a general tooth dysplasia. The aim of this review is to relate the characteristics of these root malformations to potentially disrupted processes involved in radicular morphogenesis. Radicular morphogenesis proceeds under the control of Hertwi...

introduction: many epidemiological studies have been conducted to determine the prevalence of the various types of the dental anomalies. the aim of the present study was determination of developmental and acquired dental anomalies in patients attending the faculty of dentistry in rasht, iran. materials and methods: in this retrospective cross-sectional study, 1224 digital panoramic ra-diographs...

The simultaneous occurrence of various multiple dental anomalies has been reported previously, particularly in cases of chromosomal abnormalities that often manifest with multisystem involvement.' 2 Additionally, multiple dental anomalies have been reported in individuals and within families, without evidence of other systemic manifestations. Ekman-Westborg and Julin reported a case of macrodon...

The hypothesis of this study is that children with unexpected early apical resorption of the primary teeth are also predisposed to resorption in the permanent dentition. Accordingly, the aim was to perform a longitudinal study focussing on the permanent teeth in children with unexpected early apical resorption in the primary dentition. Panoramic radiographs of 12 children (7 boys and 5 girls) a...

background: talon cusp is a rare dental anomaly characterized by a cusp‑like projection, often including the palatal surface of the affected tooth. the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence and characteristics of talon cusps in a group of turkish children. materials and methods: the study population consisted of 14,400 subjects who attended the clinics of the department of ...

Lowe syndrome (LS), also reported as oculocerebrorenal syndrome (OCRL), is a rare genetic X-linked recessive disorder. It affects more males than females [1,2] and its prevalence was estimated at 1 out of 500.000 individuals with only 190 individuals affected in the year 2000 [3,4]. LS is caused by a mutation in the OCRL1 gene localized to Xq24-Xq26, resulting in a deficiency of an enzyme calle...