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Pre-eruptive intracoronal dentin defects of permanent teeth

Nik Noriah Nik^1,*,
Rahmah Abdul Rahman²

¹Department of Children's Dentistry and Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia；Faculty of Dentistry University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

DOI: 10.17796/jcpd.27.4.w26q821135440504 Vol.27,Issue 4,October 2003 pp.371-376

Published: 01 October 2003

*Corresponding Author(s): Nik Noriah Nik E-mail: nnoriah@um.edu.my

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Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of pre-eruptive intracoronal dentin defects from panoramic radiographs from a group of children and young adults aged 20 years and below. The radiolucent lesions were noted with regard to which teeth were affected, the location of the defects and the size of the defects relative to the width of dentin. Out of 1007 radiographs examined, 275 (27.3%) have pre-eruptive dentin defects. The prevalence of anomaly among males was 28.4% as compared to 26.2% among females. However, the difference between genders was not significant, thus subsequent results have been combined. Of 275 subjects with dentin radiolucencies, 243 subjects (88.7%) had only one affected tooth, 30 subjects (10.9%) had two teeth affected and 2 subjects (0.7%) had three affected teeth. The tooth prevalence of the anomaly was 2.1% and most of the lesions occurred as a single occurrence on the affected tooth. Within each tooth type, the highest tooth prevalence of intracoronal dentin defect was found in the upper first premolar (5.1%). More than half of the lesions extended less than 1/3 of the width of the dentin thickness. The high prevalence of the condition indicates the need for increased awareness and recognition of this during radiographic examination of teeth in the pedi-atric age group in early pre-eruptive stages so that early detection and diagnosis can be made and treat-ment can be done at the most appropriate time.

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Nik Noriah Nik,Rahmah Abdul Rahman. Pre-eruptive intracoronal dentin defects of permanent teeth. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry. 2003. 27(4);371-376.

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