A Review of Incidence and Clinical Outcomes of Neonate with False Tooth Extraction

False tooth extraction is a cultural practice which have been reported in countries in SubSaharan as a management of fever, difficult in breastfeeding and diarrhoea in infants, and this has been thought to increase infant mortality. When false tooth is diagnosed it is advices before performing tooth extraction in neonate to wait for the commensal flora of the intestine to become established and to produce vitamin K, which is essential for the production of prothrombin in the liver. Thus, it is safer to wait until a child is 10 days old before extracting the tooth. Keywords: neonates, tooth, false tooth extraction, vitamin K, prothrombin.