Prosthetic Rehabilitation of a Child with Ectodermal Dysplasia and Partial Anodontia - A Case Report

Background: Ectodermal dysplasia is a rare congenital disease that affects several ectodermal structures like skin, hair, nails, teeth, or sweat glands. Children with ectodermal dysplasia may have various manifestations of the disease, which differ in severity and may involve teeth, nails, skin, hair, sweat glands and sebaceous glands. The hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is most common form of the ectodermal dysplasia syndrome and is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait. This article reports the dental rehabilitation of an 8-year-old male child with ectodermal dysplasia. Patient was clinically managed by fabricating maxillary and mandibular partial dentures to help in psychosocial development and to restore the vertical dimension, aesthetics and functions of his stomatognathic system.