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- Title
Hair Evaluation in Orthodontic Patients with Oligodontia.
- Authors
Zadurska, Małgorzata; Rakowska, Adriana; Czochrowska, Ewa; Laskowska, Małgorzata; Perkowski, Konrad; Strużycka, Izabela; Rudnicka, Lidia; Jurek, Agnieszka
- Abstract
Oligodontia can be isolated or syndromic, associated with other ectodermal abnormalities. The aim of the study was to perform hair examination in orthodontic patients diagnosed with oligodontia with a low clinical expression of symptoms of ectodermal origin. All available orthodontic patients diagnosed with oligodontia in the permanent dentition were enrolled. Hair examination included clinical evaluation of the patients' hair, trichoscopy, trichogram and evaluation of the hair shafts under a polarized light microscope. In total, 25 patients, 18 males and 7 females, aged 6 to 24 years were evaluated for the presence of dental and hair abnormalities. The number of congenitally absent teeth ranged from 6 to 24 teeth and diastemas, microdontia, taurodontism and altered tooth shape were found in 23 patients. Hair disorders were found in 68% of the subjects. Hypotrichosis, the heterogeneity of shaft color and loss of pigment, androgenetic alopecia, telogen effluvium, trichoschisis, pili canaliculi, trichorrhexis nodosa and pseudomoniletrix were observed. Trichoscopy and trichogram are valid non-invasive diagnostic tests which could be used to differentiate between isolated and syndromic oligodontia in patients with a low clinical expression of ectodermal symptoms.
- Subjects
POLARIZING microscopes; NONINVASIVE diagnostic tests; HAIR; PERMANENT dentition
- Publication
Diagnostics (2075-4418), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 9, p945
- ISSN
2075-4418
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/diagnostics14090945