[Clinical and radiographic association between tooth agenesis and systemic pathology on a group of children from U.O.C. of paediatric dentistry of Sapienza University, Rome]. / Rilevamento dell'associazione clinico-radiografica tra agene- sie dentarie e patologie sistemiche in un campione pediatrico afferente presso la U.O.C. di Odontoiatria Pediatrica della Sapienza Università di Roma.

The aim of this work is to identify the association between tooth agenesis and systemic pathologies in paediatric patients. The Authors used clinical case-history and orthopanoramic rx of paediatric patients between 5 and 12 years old, gone to U.O.C. of Paediatric Dentistry, from genuary 2006 to genuary 2009. It resulted that 9.1% of 1190 children presented tooth agenesis and in this group the Authors put in evidence a percentage of 41.5% with syndromes or orofacial diseases.