Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Mahatma Gandhi Dental College and Hospital, Sitapura, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Hemant Shakya, Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Mahatma Gandhi Dental College & Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. E-mail: shakyamds@gmail.com
Online published on 16 June, 2014.
Dentin dysplasia is a rare hereditary disturbance of dentin formation characterized by defective dentin development with clinically normal appearing crowns, severe mobility of teeth and spontaneous dental abscesses or cysts. Radiographic analysis shows obliteration of pulp chambers, short, blunted and malformed or absent roots and periapical radiolucencies of non carious teeth. We present a case of dentin dysplasia type I; the clinical, radiographic and histopathologic findings of this condition & treatment are described.
Dentin dysplasia, pulp obliteration, radicular
