Abnormal Dentition in an 8 Years Old Female Child

Abstract

Patient with shortening distal phalanx 1st finger both hands, from the birth and familiar precedents of similar abnormality. At the age of 8 she presented dental alterations with hipertrofia gingival and dental incorporations, and backaches and pain in femoral region. Radiology: increase of bony widespread density, hypoplasia lower jaw, and acrosteolisis distal phalanxes. The jaw biopsy (dental piece and alveolar surrounding bone): bony fragments are constituted for coarse and irregular trabeculas with importantly bony resorption and newly formed. Bone densitometry: T+5.2 in column lumbar and neck femoral. Gamma scan bone: diffuse captation of the axial skeleton. Diagnosis: picnodisostosis.