Skin disease and teeth — extra information
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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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