Dental Eruption in Low Birth-Weight Prematurely Born Children
PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY/Copyright © 1988 by The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Volume 10, Number 1 Dental eruption in low birth-weight prema- turely born children: a controlled study W. Kim Seow, BDS, MDSc, FRACDS Carolyn Humphrys, BDS Rangsini Mahanonda, DDS, DipDH David I. Tudehope, MBBS, FRACP Abstract present study was designed to detect differences in the This study comparedthe dental eruption status of a group tooth eruption status of prematurely born, very low of prematurely born, very low birth-weight (VLBW,< 1500 birth-weight (VLBW,< 1500 g) children compared g) children with a group of low birth-weight (LBW, 1500- low birth-weight (LBW,1500-2500 g), and normal birth- 2500 g) as well as a group of normal birth-weight (NB W, weight (NBW,> 2500 g) children in order to determine 2500 g) children in order to determine if dental eruption is if dental eruption is affected by low birth weight and affected by low birth weight and prematurity of birth. Data prematurity of birth. were analyzed using chronological and corrected (true bio- logical) ages of the prematurelyborn group. The results show Patients and Methods that when chronological ages of the children were used, The VLBWchildren were those attending the VLBW children have significant retardation of dental erup- Growth and Development Clinic of the Mater tion compared with LBWand NBWchildren, particularly Children’s Hospital, South Brisbane. This clinic pro- before 24 months of age (P < 0.01). However,when corrected vides a multidisciplinary, longitudinal follow-up of all ages of the VLBW children wereused, there was no significant infants of very low birth weight managed at the Mater difference detected, indicating that the "delay" in dental Mother’s Hospital.
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