
Hypodontia or missing teeth can result in crookedness, spaces between teeth and small or malformed teeth. Patients can also present with a reduced amount of jawbone.This is an information resource on the oral condition known as hypodontia (also known as anodontia or oligodontia). There is also useful information for dentists on current research for treatment.
Friday, 6 May 2016
Helen Tippetts References for her lecture on Definitions and Aetiology
PDF list of all further reading and references can be found here.
Select references can be found below
Polder 2004
Neiminen 1995
Khalaf 2014
Fleischmannova 2008
Brook et al. 2002
Sunday, 1 May 2016
Dental management of Rapp-Hodgkin syndrome associated with oral cleft and hypodontia
Rapp-Hodgkin syndrome (RHS) is a rare type of autosomal dominant disorder characterized by association of ectodermal dysplasia (ED) with cleft lip/palate. The main features include dry, brittle hair with alopecia in adulthood, dental anomalies (hypodontia, microdontia with delayed eruption, fissured tongue, and retruded maxilla), hypohidrosis, dysplastic nails, and clefting. Palmar-plantar keratoderma is seen frequently. RHS has signs and symptoms that overlap considerably with those of ankyloblepharon-ED-clefting syndrome and ectrodactyly-ED-clefting syndrome.
The below link takes you to an article that discusses a case of RHS, one of the four members in three generations who had ED with variable degree of involvement of hair, teeth, nail, and sweat glands.
Rapp-Hodgkin Syndrome
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)