Inborn or acquired changes in children under three years of age – a review of the literature

Kapel-Reguła Aleksandra, Radwan-Oczko Małgorzata. Inborn or acquired changes in children under three years of age – a review of the literature. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2022;12(7):238-261. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2022.12.07.024

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Received: 20.06.2022. Revised: 20.06.2022. Accepted: 02.07.2022.

Inborn or acquired changes in children under three years of

age – a review of the literature

Aleksandra Kapel-Reguła ^1,*, Małgorzata Radwan-Oczko ²

Aleksandra Kapel-Reguła, DMD, PhDc, Clinical Specialist

¹Private Dental Practice AL-DENTA

Korczaka 31/15 Street, 48-303 Nysa, Poland

E-mail: ola_kapel@tlen.pl

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7300-3689

Małgorzata Radwan-Oczko, DMD, PhD, Full Professor

²Department of Oral Pathology, Wroclaw Medical University

Krakowska 26 Street, 52-425 Wroclaw, Poland

E-mail: malgorzata.radwan-oczko@umed.wroc.pl

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4684-5722

*Corresponding author:

Aleksandra Kapel-Reguła

E-mail: ola_kapel@tlen.pl

Abstract

This study aimed to discuss some inborn and acquired changes in the oral cavity in young children under three years of age. Based on current literature, eruption cyst, Riga-Fede disease, natal and neonatal teeth, congenital epulis, Epstein pearls, Bohn’s nodules, and gingival cyst of the newborns have been described. The symptoms, clinical presentation, and histological features of these changes, their epidemiology, prevalence, etiopathogenesis, differential diagnosis, and management were taken into consideration to present them accurately. Described oral normal findings and anomalies are not very common, so they require precise diagnosis and management properly. Having relevant knowledge on issues is important both for the pediatricians and pediatric dentists who always cooperate to distinguish the pathology or anomaly and start dealing with it. To our knowledge, this is the first literature review presenting comprehensive and thorough specification of abnormalities occurring in children’s mouth, basing on the most recent scientific literature between 1999 and 2022.

Keywords: mouth abnormalities, newborn, early childhood development, neonate