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Skin disease and teeth

Skin disease associated with abnormalities of teeth include:

• Congenital erythropoetic porphyria
• Congenital syphilis
• Congenital hypertrichosis terminalis
• Ectodermal dysplasia
• Epidermolysis bullosa
• Gardner syndrome
• Job (hyperimmunoglobulin E) syndrome
• Hypomelanosis of Ito
• Incontinentia pigmenti
• Leprosy
• Leukocyte adhesion deficiency syndrome
• Naegeli-Franceschetti-Jadassohn syndrome
• Gorlin (naevoid basal cell carcinoma) syndrome
• Hereditary palmoplantar keratoderma (Papillon-LeFèvre syndrome)
• Pachyonychia congenita
• Rothmund-Thomson syndrome
• Sjögren-Larsson syndrome
• Tuberous sclerosis
• Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Teeth may also be damaged by scurvy (vitamin c deficiency), acrodynia (mercury poisoning) and tetracycline taken in infancy or early childhood.

 

References

• Dental manifestations of dermatologic conditions. Freiman A, Borsuk D, Barankin B, Sperber GH, Krafchik B. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2009 Feb;60(2):289-98. Medline.

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