Turner tooth

The Turner tooth is a malformed permanent tooth with enamel hypoplasia, a malformed crown and / or root, in particular of the incisors and premolars . By apical or intrafurkale milk tooth periodontitis may cause damage to the replacement tooth germ. The Turner tooth is named after the first person to describe it, the English dentist JG Turner (1912) - Turner's tooth (hypoplasia) .

etiology

The cause is usually an ulcerated milk tooth that has been damaged by tooth decay or trauma . Subsequently, an infection developed , which led to the deformity of the tooth after the infection had damaged the tooth germ and the tooth development was defective as a result. Turner's tooth occurs in about a quarter of the cases in which pus foci have developed on the milk tooth root .

Due to the infectious and inflammatory process on the milk tooth, damage to the tooth germ is possible after the bone lamella that surrounds the developing tooth germ has dissolved. The tooth germ can be damaged indirectly, through the pressure resulting from the formation of edema , or directly through the osteolytic process.

Differential diagnosis

• Amelogenesis imperfecta
• Molar Incisor Hypomineralization
• Dental fluorosis
• Regional odontodysplasia
• Tetracycline teeth
• Dilaceration

Prevention

In order to avoid tooth germ damage, which can lead to a Turner tooth, endodontic treatment or, alternatively, extraction of the milk tooth should be carried out in good time .

Symptoms

Clinically, there are limited white to brownish opaque areas and hypoplasia with defect formation. The defects can range from enamel and dentine defects to malformations of the anatomical crown shape.

therapy

The malformations can usually be corrected with composite tooth abutments . In more severe cases, crowning the tooth is an option.

See also

• Turner syndrome , which has nothing to do with Turner's tooth.

Individual evidence

1. ^ JG Turner: Effects of abscess arising from temporary teeth. In: Brit J Dent Science. 1906, 49, pp. 562-564.
2. ^ PR Geetha Priya, JB John, I. Elango: Turner's hypoplasia and non-vitality: a case report of sequelae in permanent tooth. In: Contemporary clinical dentistry. Volume 1, Number 4, October 2010, pp. 251-254, ISSN  0976-2361 . doi: 10.4103 / 0976-237X.76395 . PMID 22114432 . PMC 3220148 (free full text)
3. ↑ Wolfgang Klimm, Stephan Gäbler, Gabriele Viergutz: Endodontology: Basics and Practice . Deutscher Ärzteverlag, 2003, ISBN 3-934280-13-7 , p. 295 .
4. ↑ IM Schüler, R. Heinrich-Weltzien: Diagnosis and therapy of structural disorders of the hard tooth substance in children and adolescents. ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ZMK, Spitta 2010. 

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