Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion

Assessment of dental development in β-thalassemic children

5^th World Hematologists Congress

August 18-19, 2016 London, UK

Gehan Lotfy Abdel Hakeem, Ashraf Mohamed Abdel Fadeil, Amr Moneis and Tarek Hany

Minia University, Egypt

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Blood Disord Transfus

Abstract:

�?eta-thalassemia majorly affects different tissues through chronic hypoxia, iron deposition, blood transfusion complications and complication of chelating therapy. These factors result in depression of early teeth eruption, along with overall skeletal and body growth. The aim of this study was to evaluate dental development in β-thalassemic children with different treatment modalities at different age groups. Fifty four beta-thalassemic children were included divided into 3 subgroups regarding age. Group Ia included 16 patients with age less than 4 years, group Ib included 18 patients with age 4-8 years and group Ic included 20 patients older than 8 years. Another 25 apparently healthy age and sex matched children were included as controls (group II). All patients and controls were subjected to thorough history-taking, complete medical examination included anthropometric measures plotted on growth charts, panoramic oral X-ray. The mean dental age centile of thalassemic children was less than that of control group. Negative correlations were found between dental age centile and chronological age. Significant negative correlation found between dental age centile and serum ferritin. Thalassemic children had delay in dental development compared to normal healthy children increased with age.

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