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Case Report: Successful Desensitization Approach in a 11-Year-Old Patient with Down Syndrome

389 - Nutritional Rickets in a 10-Year-Old Child: A Case Report

Saturday, May 24, 2025
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM MDT
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    Presenting Author(s)

  • My-An Pham, DMD

    Pediatric dental resident
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    University of Michigan
    Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States

    • Program Director(s)

  • JB

    James R. Boynton, DDS, MS

    Professor
    University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
    Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Rickets is a skeletal disorder in children caused by defective mineralization of newly formed bones, leading to soft, weak bones that are prone to deformities. Nutritional rickets is the most common form and can present with frontal bossing, pectus carinatum, swelling of the ankle and wrist joints, and leg bowing. Dental manifestations may include spontaneous abscesses in primary dentition with no history of trauma or caries, as well as hypoplasia in permanent dentition. This case report describes a 10-year-old male patient with nutritional rickets, focusing on the dental and skeletal manifestations, treatment strategies, and the role of socio-economic and behavioral factors in the management plan.