Dental Agenesia and its management in pediatric patients: a literature review

• Autor(a) principal: Cordeiro, Welliton Arevalo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Cavalcante, Erika Luana Ferreira, Pereira, Alexandra de Lima, Silva, Thaissa Assis da, Silva Neto, Anazildo Andrade, Santos, Lysla Gançalves, Fonseca, Tiago Silva da, Oliveira, Nayhane Cristine da Silva de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Implantology and Health Sciences
• Texto Completo: https://bjihs.emnuvens.com.br/bjihs/article/view/712
• topic: Anodontia; Agenesia; Odontopediatria; Manejo de Caso; Anodontia, Agenesis, Pediatric Dentistry, Case Management

Agenesis is a developmental defect with a multifactorial etiology characterized as the lack of a tooth bud. Review the literature on the best rehabilitation alternatives for patients with agenesis in pediatric dentistry. An integrative literature review was carried out following the PRISMA Declaration Guidelines, using the Virtual Health Library VHL and PubMed Medline database, using the keywords indexed in the DECs Health Sciences descriptors: “dental agenesis”, pediatric dentistry” and “treatment”. From the 234 articles found, 17 studies in English and one article in Portuguese were included in this literature review. There was a high prevalence of studies focused on the treatment of tooth agenesis in syndromic patients. Furthermore, from the analysis by treatment outcome, it was found that the most used dental management in pediatric dentistry for agenesis is dental prosthesis (22.22%). The treatment most used to treat the lack of tooth germ in pediatric patients in the studies included was dental prosthesis associated, or not with the specialties of orthodontics and surgery, to maintain the creation of spaces, and dentistry, to improve the aspects of the underlying teeth or even increase the width of adjacent teeth to close edentulous spaces.