Open AccessPrimary failure of eruption
Author(s) -
Sunil Kumar Mishra,
Shail Kumari Mishra,
Pankaj Mishra,
Puja Panwar Hazari
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
archives of medicine and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2321-6085
pISSN - 2321-4848
DOI - 10.4103/2321-4848.196202
Subject(s) - medicine , tooth eruption , dentition , oral cavity , etiology , dentistry , differential diagnosis , primary (astronomy) , affect (linguistics) , pathology , molar , physics , astronomy , linguistics , philosophy
Primary failure of eruption (PFE) is a partially understood oral condition associated with tooth eruption failure. Failure of eruption may affect one or a number of teeth, in either the primary or the permanent dentition, and depending on the underlying etiology, it can be partial or complete absence of teeth in oral cavity. For proper diagnosis, the differential diagnosis of PFE should always begin with the exclusion of potential systemic and local factors which can affect the eruption of teeth