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Mild forms of dentinogenesis imperfecta in association with osteogenesis imperfecta as characterized by light and transmission electron microscopy.
Journal of oral pathology & medicine : official publication of the International Association of Oral Pathologists and the American Academy of Oral Pathology - 1 May 1996
Waltimo J, Ojanotko-Harri A, Lukinmaa P L
Abstract excerpt
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) results from various gene mutations leading to defects in type I collagen, which is the major component of both bone and dentin. Yet dentinogenesis imperfecta (DI) is found only in half of the patients with OI. Here we document patients from three families with OI and DI lacking the clinical and radiographic features of DI in permanent teeth. However, light and transmission electron...
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