DENTAL STORIES

Another busy day of OPD in Periodontics dept., 19 year old boy, who is now a student in Arts College,p resented with yellowish discolouration of teeth with few pits on the teeth. This discoloration is mainly because of TETRACYCLINE drug administered during pregnancy, and he had come for scaling of his teeth. In lame man terms it is called "TEETH CLEANING". So, as usual before attempting any procedure on patient, we take case history and same goes with him. In the middle of history, when I questioned him about how long he had the discolored teeth and he said right from the eruption of first tooth in the mouth, he has this discoloration. "Do you know the cause for it?" Exactly in his words:"My mom is at fault. I don't know why did she consume something which would affect my appearance. And the neighbours say I had soft skull which went "IN AND OUT" and I was named "FOOL" by all in my childhood days. The way he said me this really shook ...

 We are the creators of beautiful smile. We help to give a new beautiful world to people out there. A noted proverb "You are never fully dressed without a smile" is really true. This is heart wrenching story. I am sure it's going to be more heart wrenching because she is our peer, meaning one among us in this society.  A busy day in OPD of Periodontics. As usual I was taking case history of patients along with senior. As the senior asked me to check the new file, it turned out that the diagnosis done by Oral Medicine and Radiology was that of AMELOGENESIS IMPERFECTA. So, Amelogenesis imperfecta represents a group of HEREDITARY DEFECTS OF ENAMEL unassociated with any generalized defect. So basically it affects during formation of the outer layer of enamel. Teeth affected can be discoloured and prone to damage. There maybe pits seen on the teeth. Few cases are of HYPOCALCIFICATION type which can have teeth to be of smaller sizes and discoloured teeth. So this was a case of ...