Systemic Diseases and the Mouth Flashcards
Which systemic disorders can affect tooth structure/development in children?
Congenital conditions/ infections (syphilis, TORCH infection ectodermal dysplasia)
Illness or metabolic disorder (severe illness, cancer treatments)
Pigmentation from blood substances (bilirubin, tetracycline)
At what point in a child’s development are the primary teeth affected by disorders which may cause developmental issues with teeth?
Pre/perinatal period.
At what point in a child’s development are the permanent teeth affected by disorders which may cause developmental issues with teeth?
Peri-natal/childhood period.
List the six oral mucosal effects from systemic disease.
Giant Cell Granuloma
Orofacial Granulomatosis
Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis
Dermatoses (Lichen planus, vesicobullous)
Immune Deficiency/Disease
Drug reactions
What are giant cell lesions?
Typically osteoclast related lesions, producing multi-nucleate giant cells, in order to deal with a difficult and stubborn pathogen.
Which hormonal disorders can cause giant cell lesions?
Renal failure
Hypocalcaemia
Parathyroid tumor
How can hyperparathyroidism present on a dental radiograph?
Loss of lamina dura around multiple teeth, not due to periapical pathology. Increased osteoclastic activity leads to breakdown of cortical bone.
How can high ACTH cause pigmentation of the oral mucosa?
ACTH includes the stimulating hormone for melanocytes, leading to a reactive melanosis of the oral mucosa and skin.
Which conditions can lead to raised ACTH levels?
Addison’s/Cushing’s
List five effects that medical therapy can have on the oral cavity.
Dry mouth
Oral Ulceration
Lichenoid reaction
Angio-oedema
Osteonecrosis
Histologically, how can you differentiate between Lupus and Lichenoid reaction?
The Lymphocytic band is placed much lower in Lupus than in Lichenoid reaction.
What are the main causes of immune deficiency?
Congenital Immune Deficiency
Acquired Immune Deficiency
Diabetes
Drug therapy
Cancer therapy
HIV
What are the main causes of hematinic deficiencies?
Poor intake – dietary analysis/reinforcement
Malabsorbtion
GI diseases – Coeliac Disease, Crohn’s Disease
Blood loss
Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Peptic ulcer disease, Bowel
Cancer, Liver Disease
Increased Demand
Childhood growth spurts
What is orofacial granulomatosis?
Clinical presentation of oedema in the oral and facial soft tissues by blockage of lymphatic drainage due to immune reaction.
What is angio-oedema?
Angio-oedema is oedema of the oral and facial soft tissues due to an INCREASE in fluid exudate from the capillaries but with NO lymphatic drainage.
What are the 3 main groups when considering Oral manifestations of systemic disease?
- Dental manifestations of systemic disease
- Mucosal effects of systemic disease
- Oral effects of treatment of systemic disease
What are the 2 broad categories that dental manifestations of systemic disease occur?
- Disruption to tooth structure formation
- Disruption to tooth structure content
Is dental manifestations going to be more apparent in children or adults?
- Children
- Apparent in primary teeth for pre/perinatal issues
- Apparent in permanent teeth for perinatal/childhood issues
What are some congenital conditions/infections that can cause dental manifestations in children?
- Syphillis
- TORCH
- Ectodermal dysplasia
What is TORCH infection?
- Infection of developing fetus or newborn that can occur in utero, during delivery or after birth
- Stands for toxoplasmosis, rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes and other agents
What is ectodermal dysplasia?
- Dsiorders that affect skin, sweat glands, hair, teeth and nails
- Can also cause immune system problems like hearing and vision
What are some illness’ or metabolic disorders that can cause dental manifestations in children?
- Severe childhood illness
- Cancer txt (the earlier the txt starts the more dental development issues can be seen)
What are some pigmentations from substances in the blood which can cause dental manifestations in children?
- Bilirubin (found in high levels in pt with jaundice can affect the teeth)
- Tetracycline (administered within antibiotic can then be incorporated iinto tooth substance)
What systemic disease can manifest as this picture?
- Describe what you see
- Ectodermal dysplasia
- Shows hypodontia and hypoplasia
- Small cone shaped teeth and missing teeth
- This pt does not have full ectodermal dysplasia as has hair on upper lip
What is a common finding of pt with ectodermal dysplasia?
- Absence of sweat glands or salivary glands
- Can cause issue with xerostomia - caries - perio - etc
What systemic infection can cause this manifestation?
- Describe what you see
- Syphilis
- Show changes to incisors in particular termed Hutchinson’s incisor with a bulbous crown
What systemic disease can cause this dental manifestation?
- Describe what you see
- Perinatal illness
- Shows chnages to the laying down to dentine and enamel
- Shows some changes to the calcification of these tissues according to the time at which the illness happened
- Give away is the Clearly same effect through different teeth
- Upper incisors formed slightly more than lower incisors but both show the hypoplastic and hypomineralised enamel and dentine
What systemic disease can cause this dental manifestation?
- Describe what you see
- Metabolic disease called Porphyria
- Produce a change in the amount of hem in the blood and can induce this into the teeth
- Can see the dark pigmentation in the tooth tissues
What systemic disease can cause this dental manifestation?
- Describe what you see
- Sever jaundice as a child
- Increase the bilirubin in the blood which manifests into the tooth tissues
- Leads to yellow green change in dentition
- This case the jaundice went on for some years as all of the crown is affected with the colouring
What tooth substance pigmentation can cause this dental manifestation?
- Describe what you see
- Tetracycline from drug prescription
- Produce a linear band
- Tetracycline are not recommended for children anymore for this problem
What are the oral mucosal effects from systemic disease we need to consider?
- Giant cell granuloma
- Orofacial granulomatosis
- Recurrent Aphthous stomatitis
- Dermatoses
- Immune deficiency/disease
- Lichen planus (drug reactions)
What is this a picture of?
- Giant cell Lesion
What are giant cell lesions?
- Type of noncancerous tumour
- Can be central or peripheral lesions
- Most are osteoclast related lesions but some can be due to local irritation producing multinucleated giant cells to remove stubborn pathogen