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Skin disease and teeth

Created 2009.

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.

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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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