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Rare dental developmental disturbance in primary and permanent teeth following trauma prior to tooth eruption: Case report.

Gabrielle Amaral-FreitasCláudia B BrasileiroPatrícia M ZarzarFernanda De Morais Ferreira
Published in: Dental traumatology : official publication of International Association for Dental Traumatology (2019)
Traumatic dental injuries are highly prevalent among preschool children. When occurring at a very young age (prior to the eruption of the primary teeth), such trauma can disturb the normal development of the permanent dentition and, more rarely, affect the primary dentition. This report describes a case of a patient who suffered dentoalveolar trauma at six months of age that caused rare developmental problems in the primary dentition, such as impaction, dilacerations, hypoplasia, and odontoma. Imaging revealed that alterations also occurred in the permanent dentition. This report demonstrates that dentoalveolar trauma prior to complete development of the dentition and even before the eruption of the primary teeth can lead to highly uncommon abnormalities in the primary dentition. Moreover, there may be repercussions in the permanent dentition when the germs of these teeth are injured by the intraosseous displacement of primary teeth.
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