Stigmata of congenital syphilis in the deciduous dentition

Wilde, Herman De

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“…Burket (1937) and Bauer (1943) described changes in the ameloblasts and pulp but not in hard tissues. De Wilde (1943) reported nonspecific changes in dentin. Sarnat and Shaw (1942) found both enamel and dentin to be normal in histology, with all deformities attributable to shape changes at the dentinoenamel junction.…”

Section: The Central Upper Incisors Are the Test-teethmentioning

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“…There is evidence that dental lesions do not develop until the third or fourth month after birth (Bernfeld, 1971;Putkonen, 1963). Hypoplasia of the deciduous teeth in children with congenital syphilis was noticed as early as 1877 (Coles, 18771, but these changes appear to be nonspecific (Burket, 1937;De Wilde, 1943). molar was coded as normal, affected, worn, lost antemortern, or absent.…”

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Congenital syphilis in the past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados, West Indies

Jacobi

Cook

Corruccini

et al. 1992

American J Phys Anthropol

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Hutchinson's incisors and Moon's molars are specific lesions of congenital syphilis. The extensive but fragmentary clinical literature on these conditions describes reduced dimensions and thin enamel in the permanent incisors and first molars, crowding and infolding of the first molar cusps, notching of the upper incisors, and apical hypoplasias of the permanent canines. A Barbados slave cemetery (ca. 1660-1820 AD) includes three individuals with these features, suggesting a frequency at birth of congenital syphilis in the population approaching 10%. These three cases show triple the frequency of all hypoplasias and more than seven times the frequency of pitting hypoplasia present in the remainder of the series. The recognizable congenital syphilis cases account for much of the remarkably high frequency of hypoplasias in the series as a whole. We infer that syphilis contributed substantially to morbidity, infant mortality, and infertility in this population. Presence or absence of congenital syphilis may account for much of the variability in health and mortality seen among nineteenth century African-American populations.

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Section: The Central Upper Incisors Are the Test-teethmentioning

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Section: The Central Upper Incisors Are the Test-teethmentioning

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Congenital syphilis in the past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados, West Indies

Jacobi

Cook

Corruccini

et al. 1992

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…This would certainly conform in development timing to the defects seen in the permanent teeth (see below). The case study of de Wilde (1943) is particularly interesting in this context. Deciduous first incisors from a 3-year-old child with congenital syphilis showed no defect of the enamel, but displayed a prominent ring-like narrowing of the root just below the neck of the tooth.…”

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Dental defects of congenital syphilis

Hillson

Grigson

Bond

1998

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Diagnosis of the congenital form of syphilis is an important part of the palaeopathology of this disease. In theory, there are clear clinical signs to be found in the long bones and teeth, but it has rarely been possible to recognise the latter with a confidence in archaeological material, partly because the original descriptions of the dental deformities are sometimes contradictory and partly because it is nowadays difficult to find reference specimens in museums. This article describes two such specimens which have recently been rediscovered, and discusses the form of the dental defects which they show (Hutchinson's incisors, Moon's molars, and mulberry molars) in relation to the developmental sequence of the teeth.

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Infectious Diseases II

Lewis¹

2018

Paleopathology of Children

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Stigmata of congenital syphilis in the deciduous dentition

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Congenital syphilis in the past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados, West Indies

Congenital syphilis in the past: Slaves at Newton Plantation, Barbados, West Indies

Dental defects of congenital syphilis

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