Causes of Delayed Tooth Development in Toddlers

Video Transcript

"I'm Dr. Donald Gossett. I'm an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. I have training in dentistry and specialty training in maxillofacial surgery. Today we're going to speak about some fairly general aspects of general dentistry and possibly specialized dentistry and hopefully we'll be able to educate you a little better on some of those topics. Today we're going to talk about reasons for delayed tooth eruption in children. Delayed tooth eruption occurs most commonly with either systemic diseases or some type of syndrome that involves a child. And the syndrome would be a genetic disease disorder where there's some problem in a linkage genetically and it causes a myriad of different physical characteristics to manifest themselves. One common syndrome to cause delayed eruption is Apert syndrome and I'll just read a few more. Cleidocranial dysostosis, down syndrome, one that a lot of people are very commonly known. Ectodermal dysplasia, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome. Incontinentia pigmenti achromians and Progeria. Other reasons would be systemic diseases such as hypoparathyroidism and hypothyroidism. These are very common causes of either delayed eruption or non-formation. Many of these syndromes can give anodontia which would give the sense that you have delayed eruption but in essence you don't have any teeth forming. These are the common causes of delayed eruption. This is Dr. Donald Gossett. I hope you enjoyed the information to the point to where you may pursue dentistry or you may pursue the benefits of some of the treatment alternatives."