ABSTRACT
Considering the management of the decayed teeths’certain clinical signs, sensitivity tests, and radiographic findings do not provide accurate information about pulpal status. There can be a possibility of diagnosing pulpal pathological status using the cytokines that are released during the inflammation process in healthy as well as infected tooth pulp as a marker. This article emphasizes on the importance of cytokines level estimation in puplal blood that may help in the diagnosis of pulpal inflammation
ABSTRACT
Delayed tooth eruption is the emergence of a tooth into the oral cavity at a time that deviates significantly from norms established for different race, ethnicity, and gender. It may be due to many local and systemic reasons, eruption delay of more than two years should be definitely investigated. Certain endocrinal hormonal imbalances that occur in infancy or early childhood can lead to many clinical manifestations like short stature, delayed tooth eruption and delay in major developmental milestones. The possibility of hormonal disturbances should be suspected when evaluating teenagers and adolescents with the complaint of delayed eruption, both physician and dentist should be aware of this clinical manifestation. This is a case report on delayed eruption of teeth in a teenager with undiagnosed hormonal imbalance who visited our department, a watchful eye and timely investigation led to the diagnosis of underlying organic problem.