Recommendations for dental management of diastrophic dysplasia: a rare case report

A.A. Assiry

Preventive Dental Science Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Najran University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. aaassire@nu.edu.sa

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• Dentistry

BACKGROUND: When treated in a dental chair, patients with deformities such as scoliosis often require special consideration.

CASE REPORT: Here is a case of 9 years old Saudi child who was reported with dental problems. The objective of this study is to provide a guideline for dental management of diastrophic dysplasia.

CONCLUSIONS: Diastrophic dysplasia is a rare and nonlethal skeletal dysplasia, autosomal inheritance recessive, recognized by the infant’s dysmorphic changes at birth. Diastrophic dysplasia is not a common hereditary disorder, however, the characteristic of this condition and guidelines for dental treatment should be known to a pediatric dentist, particularly at a major medical center.

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