Rampant caries: a side effect of tricyclic antidepressant therapy.
This article presents the stages of prosthodontic rehabilitation, from diagnosis to final treatment of a patient with
rampant caries with severely worn dentition, some extracted teeth and uneven occlusal plane using light cure core build up, metal ceramic restorations and maxillary-mandibular cast removable partial dentures.
Mostly parents are aware of the sugary foods that cause caries but they are not aware of the
rampant caries caused by the feeding bottles, and need of rinsing after every intake of food.
S-ECC is
rampant caries affecting the primary dentition.
The most common oral manifestations involve, enamel hypoplasia,
rampant caries, microstomia tongue atrophy, oral ulceration with scaring and constriction of buccal vestibules.
As a result some children do not appear to complain verbally at all, even with
rampant caries that makes the recognition of toothache in (preverbal) young children very difficult.
In the mind of many clinicians and researchers reflects a clinical situation of
rampant caries in young children, affecting labial/lingual surfaces of primary maxillary incisors.