A 1 year and 11 month-old child with cerebral palsy, who had been suffering from mobility of lower anterior teeth, visited the clinic for Pediatric Dentistry at Hokkaido University Dental Hospital.
The patient had not shown any carious resions but all anterior teeth were mobile. He was found to have obvious stigmata of severe bruxism.
A absorbed bony features of the alveolar crestal bone were found in all resions by means of examination.
Laboratory findings revealed evidence of leukocytosis, and elevated levels of GOT, GPT, IgA, IgM and IgG as well.
Although these findings were not confirmed with respect to their relationship to this disease is concerned, they are nevertheless interesting.
Histological study of the teeth demonstrated that the roots of the teeth were shorter than those of the control.
These findings, not only revealed the regressive pathological changes of the alveolar regions, but also showed the early exfoliation of primaly teeth.