Publicación:

Descripción de edad dental y biológica en pacientes con pubertad precoz: serie de 5 casos

Resumen

Precocious puberty and early puberty are conditions in which children prematurely have changes and sexual characteristics advanced for age due to various internal and external factors that have not yet been accurately established. These changes occur both physically and psychic may possibly interfere with dental therapy employed in pediatric patients Because the dentist often have contact early with children (as) from a very young age and clinically very important to establish the state of skeletal maturation in order to make treatment plans in line with the remaining growth of the individual; a finding that may draw attention to the dentist, is the forward eruption of certain teeth. At other times when dental routine diagnostic aids such as panoramic radiography, the cephalic radiography or carpal radiograph is requested, it may be the dentist who suspected processes that indicate early maturity to dental level and / or skeletal and business addresses parents for a timely identification of pathology. In this series of cases patients present with early puberty which they took panoramic, cephalic and carpal radiography and dental age was assessed to observe the maturation stage and root development, showing a direct relationship between dental age and age biological for these 5 cases.