Dental Findings and Treatment in Osteogenesis Imperfecta: A Case Report

Abstract

Abstract Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a genetically inherited disease in which increased bone fragility, low bone mass, and connective tissue disorders are seen. In other words, 'glass bone disease'; has been associated with blue sclera, hearing problems, hand-foot deformities, and dentinogenesis imperfecta. In this case, a 10-year-old girl with OI who applied to Gaziantep University Faculty of Dentistry Department of Pedodontics is presented. Among the physical findings of the patient, short stature, hearing loss, pectus excavatum, grayish blue sclera, hand-foot deformities, malocclusions in the relationship between the jaws were found. In the clinical examination of the patient, lack of oral hygiene, deep dentin caries, crowding, macroglossia, class 3 malocclusion were observed and teeth that needed treatment were treated.

Keywords

• osteogenesis imperfecta
• pedodontics
• dental findings
• osteogenezis imperfekta
• pedodonti
• dental bulgular