3. Genetic Disorders of Teeth Flashcards

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Tooth pathology
• ____
• Developmental
• ____

  • Morphology
  • ____
  • Size
  • ____
  • Structure• Cleidocranial dysplasia > manifest with ____ teeth (number)
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acquired
genetic
color
number
extra
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Genetic disorders – tooth number
• Hypodontia
– Ectodermal dysplasia
– Hereditary oligodontia

* \_\_\_\_ - no teeth
* \_\_\_\_ - few teeth (6+)
* Diseases that cause phenotype are similar, but vary from patient to patient

Hypodontia
• ED > impairs ____ cells from forming > phenotype that’s characteristic: less hair, ____ glands may be impaired (hyponecrosis?), the teeth are ____ (fewer and may have complete absence of teeth); a change in tooth ____ and in ____
○ Enamel, dentin, pulp - everything is completely ____ - can be bonded and prepped normally
○ ____-like teeth
○ 135 diseases that fall in this category of ED
§ X-linked ED, and X-linked hypohydrotic > this patient on screen has
§ The sweating issue can be ____ > in order for body to breath you need sweat; it cools you off, and if you can’t sweat > body T continues to rise
□ Patients wear a specialized vest that keeps them ____
• HO > limited to a ____ phenotype
○ Gene defects that only relate to tooth development
○ Complicated treatments > but have ____ teeth than normal
§ One patient had molars were missing, and one patient had missing premolars
○ There is also a genetic basis, but the teeth were ____
§ If missing molar ____, it’s rare to miss these > likely to be this condition here

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anodontia
oligodontia

epithelial
sweat
misshapen
number
structure
normal
peg
life-threatening
cool

dental
fewer
normal
congenitally

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Genetic disorders – tooth number

• Hyperdontia
– Cleidocranial dysplasia
– Familial adenomatous polyposis

Hyperdontia
• Characterized by several extra teeth, erupted or unerupted
○ No discrimination to which tooth is extra in number
• These patients are also missing the ____; may be shorted and may have ____ skulls
• FAP > ____ syndrome
○ As young kid, will have ____ teeth radiographically
○ Colon that contains numerous benign tumors > risk of developing malignancy from having all the tumors > will develop colon cancer
§ Prophylactically had colon removed in order to improve treatment

* CD > if can put \_\_\_\_ together > missing clavicles, implies they have this disease; can diagnose in office
* No known condition where they only have \_\_\_\_ teeth; they have something else going on with it
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clavicles
bigger
gardner
extra

shoulder blades
extra

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Hypodontia - Ectodermal dysplasia

• \_\_\_\_ group of diseases 
– AD, AR and X-linked
• Defects in \_\_\_\_ structures
• X-linked hypohidrotic ED
– \_\_\_\_ gene
• Use term as disease name > genetically heterogeneous predisposition
	○ X-linked form > only affects \_\_\_\_
		§ Mother has one of two alleles has a mutation, and son inherits with the Y from the father
		§ Mutation in EDA gene > plays role in epithelial/ectodermal structure development > \_\_\_\_, tooth, skin and \_\_\_\_ gland development
• Disease phenotype is same across all \_\_\_\_ that have this nomenclature
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heterogeneous
ectodermal
EDA
boys
hair
sweat
diseases
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Ectodermal dysplasia
• ____, abnormal nails, hypohidrosis
• Dental agenesis - ____, oligodontia

• Hypothricosis - less \_\_\_\_
• Hypohidrosis - less \_\_\_\_
• Very rarely anodontia
• Treatment - do not treat, not a lot you can do therapeutically
	○ Require more specialized care > \_\_\_\_, or through perio-prosth program
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hypothrichosis
hypodontia
hair
sweat
prosthodontist
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Genetic disorders- tooth number

* Radiograph reveals eight extra teeth
* Patient had FAP - also had a history of \_\_\_\_ cancer
* Patient is \_\_\_\_ because of all the restorations
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colon

older

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Hyperdontia- Cleidocranial dysplasia
• RUNX2
– \_\_\_\_
– \_\_\_\_ stages of bone development
– \_\_\_\_ stages of tooth development
* Caused by mutation in RUNX2 > particularly important in development of \_\_\_\_
* Mice who lack this protein > limited skeleton (tiny, all bones are affected)
* Patient has \_\_\_\_ teeth, all shapes and sizes sitting within the jaw bone
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transcription factor
all
late
clavicles
extra
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Hyperdontia –
Familial adenomatous polyposis (Gardner syndrome)

• Autosomal \_\_\_\_
• Chromosome \_\_\_\_ -> \_\_\_\_ gene
– APC regulates \_\_\_\_, targeting it for destruction
• Clinical features
– Intestinal \_\_\_\_
– \_\_\_\_ cancer
– \_\_\_\_ teeth
* APC encodes a \_\_\_\_ protein > when lose the function of it, you prevent the breaks of tumor suppression > develop numerous tumors as go through development
* B-catenin doesn't cause tumors > but plays a role in tooth development; if not present in proper form > \_\_\_\_ tooth development
* Prone to benign bone tumor > \_\_\_\_ > multiple osteomas is pathognomonic for this syndrome; can diagnose based solely off the radiograph
* Also get tooth tumors > \_\_\_\_ > benign tumor of tooth structure; not \_\_\_\_ but characteristic of disease

• Each bump is a \_\_\_\_ tumor
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dominant
5
APC
b-catenin
polyposis
colon
supernumerary
tumor suppressor
uncontrolled
osteoma
odontoma
pathognomonic
benign
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Genetic disorders – tooth shape

• Globodontia
– \_\_\_\_ syndrome
• Taurodontism
– \_\_\_\_ syndrome
• Radiculomegaly
– \_\_\_\_ syndrome
• Changes in tooth shape are not common
• Otodental syndrome - oto implies ear/hearing, and there's a dental phenotype
	○ \_\_\_\_, and teeth have a \_\_\_\_-like appearance (not much \_\_\_\_ anatomy)
	○ Only disease with this \_\_\_\_, and all teeth have similar
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otodental
tricho-dento-osseous
oculo-facial-cardio-dental
deaf
globe
occlusal
morphology
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Globodontism

• ____ molars

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rounded

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Taurodontism
• Taurodontism
○ Seen ____ (not seen with globo - one tooth can be circular due to ischemia; if seen all over then it’s ____)
○ Molar has a “____” (tauro = bull)
§ Teeth constrict cervically normally, but here, ____ down (no shape, curves, etc.) to the cervical portion of the tooth
§ Morphology extends apically down to the base of the tooth - ____ roots at the apex
○ Can see in any heathy patient you see in the clinic, doesn’t have to worry
§ Only worry when ____ teeth in same morphology
§ Syndromes that are characterized by several teeth having this morphology > also affect other ectodermal structures > the ____
• Tricho-dento-osseous syndrome > tricho (____), dento (tooth), and osseous (____)
○ Hair is ____ and it falls apart
○ Taurodontic teeth > integrity wise they’re ____, but morphologically abnormal
○ Changes to the bone

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sporadically
genetic
bull-neck
straight
tiny
multiple
hair
hair
bone
crinkly
normal
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• Radiculomegaly
○ Only one disease forms this > ____ syndrome
§ ____, face is affected (eyes are ____ spaced, bridge of nose is flat), ____ is affected and the dental phenotype
§ The dental phenotype is ____
□ Long roots of the ____ (both maxillary and mandibular)
○ ____ normal
§ Do an ____ after the fact

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oculo-facial-cardio-dental
blind
widely
heart
pathognomonic
canines
structurally
apicoectomy
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Genetic disorders – tooth structure and substance

• Enamel
– \_\_\_\_
• Dentin
– \_\_\_\_
– Dentin dysplasia
• Cementum
– \_\_\_\_
• More commonly encountered diseases in practice (tooth structure and substance)
• AI - affects only enamel production
• DI, DD - affect only dentin
• HP - affects cementum, but affects both \_\_\_\_ and cementum
• This patient, 5 y.o, all teeth similarly affected and parents were normal > developed AI
	○ Several clinical and genetic subtypes
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amelogenesis imperfecta
dentinogenesi imperfecta
hypophosphatasia
bone

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Amelogenesis imperfecta
• Genetically heterogeneous
– Autosomal \_\_\_\_
– Autosomal \_\_\_\_ 
– \_\_\_\_
• Hypoplastic
• Hypomaturation
• Hypocalcified
• AMELX, ENAM, MMP20, KLK4, WDR72 and FAM83H genes
• Enamel has a complex biology/development > several proteins (listed at the bottom) > implicated in enamel development
	○ Explains phenotypic variability and genetic variability of this syndrome
• X-linked form > occurs in \_\_\_\_, can also occur in \_\_\_\_ also
	○ Don’t memorize the genes, but know they're implicated

Know the ones for CD, gardners, and X-linked hypohydrotic dysplasia

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dominant
recessive
x-linked
boys
females
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Amelogenesis imperfecta
• 3 phenotypic basis:
○ Hypoplastic
§ Teeth are smaller, less ____
§ Pits on the enamel surfaces (shown here); not ____ for this syndrome, but if you see several that are pitted then you should think of this condition
§ Enamels ____ normal, no less prone to ____ than any other patient

	○ Hypomaturation (next two slides)
		§ Teeth are smaller; the enamel is produced in sufficient quantity, but it doesn't \_\_\_\_ properly
			□ Forms crystals during formation, the matrix calcifies
			□ If you don't produce enough \_\_\_\_, and then they don't mature/orient properly (if doesn't calcified properly it's hypocalcified)
		§ \_\_\_\_, mottled looking teeth
		§ Very weak - can easily be \_\_\_\_ down (\_\_\_\_, tooth brushing)
			□ More prone to \_\_\_\_

	○ Hypocalcified
		§ Teeth take on \_\_\_\_h appearance, but the tooth are \_\_\_\_ sound
		§ Prone to \_\_\_\_
		§ More difficult to diagnose > teeth take on a \_\_\_\_ chalky appearance
		§ Affects both \_\_\_\_ and \_\_\_\_teeth, and all teeth are affected
		§ Not effective to bond with \_\_\_\_ - cannot \_\_\_\_ the teeth, and they are difficult to treat
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enamel
pathognomonic
caries

mature
matrix
yellow
worn
attrition
caries
yellowish
morphologically
caries
white
deciduous
permnanet
composite
etch
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Amelogenesis Imperfecta

• A combination of two+ types
	○ Here, both \_\_\_\_ and \_\_\_\_
	○ No hypoplastic > no \_\_\_\_in teeth
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hypomature
hypocalcified
pits

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Amelogenesis Imperfecta

• \_\_\_\_ the teeth look normal > only see that the enamel doesn't have the same radio opacity you see in healthy teeth
	○ Do not see a strong \_\_\_\_ bt dentin and enamel (look homogeneous)
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radiographically

distinction

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Dentinogenesis imperfecta
• Type 1 associated with \_\_\_\_ 
– \_\_\_\_, COL1A2 genes
• Type 2 caused by \_\_\_\_ gene mutations
– May be involved in \_\_\_\_ of dentin collagen
• Has a very different radiographic appearance - \_\_\_\_ may look the same (dentin may mimic enamel phenotypically)
• OI > genetic disease
	○ Mutations in type 1 collagen > helix of two proteins > COL1A1 and 1A2
		§ Upon mutation of one protein or the other > helix \_\_\_\_ > defective type 1 collagen production > used by HA to mineralize tooth structure > \_\_\_\_ fractures
		§ Also role in tooth development via \_\_\_\_ formation
• Type 2 DI - implicates protein specifically involved in \_\_\_\_ development > DSPP (dento-sialo-phosphoprotein)
	○ Will only have a dentin defect > mimics what the patients with OI have as well
	○ Only a \_\_\_\_ disease
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osteogenesis imperfecta
COL1A1
DSPP
mineralization

clinically
disruption
bone
dentin
dental
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Dentinogenesis imperfecta Type I
• 90% of patients with mutations in type I collagen genes – COL1A1 and COL1A2
• Other implicated genes also regulate ____ collagen biosynthesis

Each helix normally composed of 2 ____ and 1 ____
____ is main organic component of dentin

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type I
COL1A1
COL1A2
collagen

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Dentinogenesis imperfecta Type I

  • ____ colored teeth
  • ____ pulps
  • Sometimes see ____ pulps
    • ____ and ____ appear the same way with dental phenotypes
    • Grey-amber > difficult to differentiae from AI; the distinction is made ____ not clinically
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grey-amber
obliterated
enlarged
Type I
II
radiographically
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• Do not see pulps in this radiograph - ____ in DI (either type I or II)
○ Do see in the molars, but do not see the chambers
○ Not ____

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obliterated pulps

pathognomonic

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• Enamel is strikingly different from dentin - can see the ____ (unlike AI where it’s not as prominent)

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distinction

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Dentin dysplasia
• Type 1
– Defect in \_\_\_\_ dentin
– “\_\_\_\_ teeth”
– \_\_\_\_ teeth severely affected 
– Pulps \_\_\_\_
– Prone to \_\_\_\_
• Another genetic disease
	○ Type I - characterized by defect in radicular dentin - the dentin that is found within the \_\_\_\_ structure (not \_\_\_\_ dentin!)
		§ Root dentin is produced differently than coronal
	○ \_\_\_\_ is also implicated (that gives rise to DI also)
		§ Genotype-phenotype correlation - depending on which part of \_\_\_\_ it's occurring in will determine whether DI II or DD I
	○ Pulps are also obliterated (common to DI and DD)
	○ Rootless > fall out \_\_\_\_ at an early age
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radicular
rootless
deciduous
obliterated
infection
root
coronal
DSPP
protein
spontaneously
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Dentin dysplasia

• No chambers, and the ____ are almost completely absent
○ Seen in ____, but they’re stunted (shorter than normal)

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roots

molars

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Dentin dysplasia
• Type2
– Defect in ____ dentin
– ____ mutations

• Type II is probably just \_\_\_\_
• Type I DD is a different disease phenotypically
• How to treat > teeth are not stable > exfoliate \_\_\_\_ (mostly \_\_\_\_ upon meeting patients)
	○ Teeth extracted > can be treated long term with implant therapy bc the \_\_\_\_ is unaffected
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coronal
DSPP
spontaneously
mobile
bone
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Hypophosphatasia
• Disorder of \_\_\_\_ and \_\_\_\_metabolism
• Mutations in \_\_\_\_ gene
– Reduced activity of \_\_\_\_
• \_\_\_\_ defect
• \_\_\_\_ defect

• Highly ____ clinical presentation – Mild to lethal

• ALPL gene > TNSALP > upon mutation, reduced activity
	○ Converts pyrophosphate to inorganic \_\_\_\_ > used by HA with calcium to mineralize
• Can have severe to non-severe phenotypes
	○ Least severe: only have a \_\_\_\_ defect, with minimal bone complications
	○ Most severe: patients born with disease and die in \_\_\_\_/shortly after birth
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bone
mineral
ALPL
non-specific form of alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP)
quantitative
qualitative

variable
phosphate
dental
utero

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Alkaline phosphatase

• Ratio of phosphate to pyrophosphate is critical
– Phosphate needed for ____ crystals
– Pyrophosphate inhibits ____ formation

• Hydroxyapatite
– Deposited along ____ fibrils
– Contained within matrix ____

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hydroxyapatite
hydroxyapatite
collagen
vesicles

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Dental phenotype
• \_\_\_\_ pulp chambers and canals
• Absent / insufficient \_\_\_\_
– Teeth exfoliate \_\_\_\_
• All clinical forms associated with \_\_\_\_ loss of deciduous teeth
• Crowns look normal, but patients come in with \_\_\_\_ (not \_\_\_\_!)
	○ Fell out over time > due to inadequate cementum lining the roots
		§ Sharpey's fibers embed into bone and cementum, and if no cementum, then the teeth are floating without an \_\_\_\_

• Can be diagnosed \_\_\_\_
	○ Pulp is enlarged
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enlarged
cementum
spontaneously
deciduous

hypodontia
genetic
anchor
radiographically