A Case Report of Dental Defects in Congenital Syphilis

선천 매독성 치아기형 1예 보고

  • 김종열 (연세대학교 치과대학 구강진단학교실) ;
  • 정순민 (연세대학교 치과대학 구강진단학교실)
  • Published : 1982.03.01

Abstract

The patient, 11 yeats old male was examined for routine oral health care. He had been hospitalized for treatment of nephritis. Hos physical condition os mental retarded & undergrowth state. In oral examination, notch on cutting edge and screw-driver shaped crown of maxillary central incisors, narrow crown and dwarfed & pinched occlusal surface of lower first molars and scars(rhagades) on the angle of the lip were shown. We diagnosed the above symptoms as dental defects of congenital syphilis; Huchinson's inscisors and mulberry molar.

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