Dental Abnormalities in Pituitary Dwarfism: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

Incidence of dental anomalies in pituitary dwarfism resulting from a search of PubMed for “oral cavity hypopituitarism” (ordered from most to least frequent abnormalities).

Oral abnormalities in pituitary dwarfism	Reported percentage incidence	Presence/absence in the case reported
Periodontal disease	98%	Present
Orthodontic malocclusion	95%	Present
Small size of the maxilla and mandible with overcrowding of teeth	95%	Present
Retention of permanent teeth in maxillary and mandibular shafts	75%	Present
Marked delay in eruption of permanent teeth	72%	Present
Delayed shedding of deciduous teeth	69%	Undefined
Solitary median maxillary central incisor	59%	Absent
No resorption of roots of deciduous teeth at the usual time	55%	Undefined
Development of apical parts of roots of retained permanent teeth and their growth toward the lower mandibular edge	55%	Present
Tilting of some of the retained teeth	35%	Present
Displacement of first molars from the shaft to the ascending branch of the mandible	10%	Absent
Complete absence of buds of wisdom teeth, even in patients in the fourth decade of life	10%	Present
Radicular fusion with crowns completely separate and independent	0%	Present