Abstract |
Trisomy 18 is a disorder characterized by psychomotor disabilities, dysmorphic features and organ malformations, including mental disabilities, growth deficiency, poor motor ability, micrognathia, microcephaly, low-set and malformed ears, distinctively clenched fists with overlapping fingers, and congenital heart defects. The prognosis is poor: 90% of infants with trisomy 18 do not survive beyond the first year of life and 99% die before the age of 10. This paper reports on a 13-year-old child diagnosed with trisomy 18. The major clinical features are cleft lip/palate, high-arched narrow palate, micrognathia, anterior open bite, posterior crossbite and taurodontism. Dental care management of these patients with special needs is discussed and the dental treatment for this child with trisomy 18 is described.
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Authors | Roberta R Ribeiro, Bianca M dos Santos, Adriana S Stuani, Aldevina C de Freitas, Alexandra M de Queiroz |
Journal | Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry
(Spec Care Dentist)
2006 Nov-Dec
Vol. 26
Issue 6
Pg. 247-51
ISSN: 0275-1879 [Print] United States |
PMID | 17472040
(Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Adolescent
- Chromosome Disorders
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18
- Dental Care for Disabled
- Dental Caries
(therapy)
- Dental Plaque
(therapy)
- Female
- Humans
- Micrognathism
- Microstomia
- Syndrome
- Tooth Abnormalities
- Trisomy
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