DMF Index among Amelogenesis Imperfecta Patients: Systematic Review of the Literature.

Farah Kallel,Sonia Ghoul,Sana Bekri,Sinda Ammar,Amel Labidi,Lamia Mansour,Sreekanth Kumar Mallineni

doi:10.1155/2021/5577615

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Objectives The aim of this study was to explore the literature in order to assess systematically the association between amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) and caries development and to evaluate the DMF index among AI patients. Basic Research Design. PubMed was used to explore the database Medline. The key words used were “Amelogenesis Imperfecta” [Mesh], “Dental Caries” [Mesh], “Tooth Loss” [Mesh], “DMF Index” [Mesh], and “Dental Restoration, Permanent” [Mesh]. Moreover, an ad hoc search was performed in order to make the study as exhaustive as possible. Results Fifty-five articles were retained. The total number of patients gathered was 499. A percentage of 68.8% of the articles dealt with cases with a relatively low dental caries process, 20.8% dealt with cases in which the dental caries process was relatively moderate, and 10.4% dealt with cases in which the dental caries process was severe. Teeth extraction due to dental caries was mentioned in 10 articles. Eleven articles, concerning 53 patients, mentioned dental fillings. Four patients did not have dental filling due to dental caries. DMF index was very low in 2 articles and low-to-high in 3 articles. Conclusion Low dental caries susceptibility with AI patients was noticed in this study. A possible factor could be the lack of proximal contacts and elimination of fissures through enamel loss. The lack of dental caries susceptibility was also explained by the microbacterial specificity of hypoplastic AI patients. Moreover, it was also noted that the prevalence of dental caries among AI patients depends on sociodemographic change.

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Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) is a disorder of tooth development. is pathology causes alteration of the enamel structure that leads to discolored, pitted, grooved, or small teeth
A systematic review of the literature exploring the Medline database was performed using PubMed. e search strategy was developed using the Mesh words “Amelogenesis Imperfecta” [Mesh]; “Dental caries” [Mesh]; “Dental Restoration Permanent” [Mesh]; “Dental loss” [Mesh]; “Dental caries” [Mesh], and “DMF index” [Mesh]. ese terms were associated into different Boolean formulas (Table 1)
72 were excluded as follows: 9 of these were excluded due to the fact that they were not published in French or English, 8 articles were identified as duplicates, and 55 articles did not explore the DMF index within AI patients

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Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) is a disorder of tooth development. is pathology causes alteration of the enamel structure that leads to discolored, pitted, grooved, or small teeth. Is pathology causes alteration of the enamel structure that leads to discolored, pitted, grooved, or small teeth. It leads to rapid wear of dental tissues and breakage. AI affects both primary and permanent teeth. E decayed, missing, filled (DMF) index is established as the key measure of caries experience in dental epidemiology. It is called DMFT, when applied to tooth, and DMFS when applied to tooth surfaces. When written in lowercase letters, the dmf index is a variation that is applied to the primary dentition [2, 3]

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