Pediatrics & Therapeutics

Pediatrics & Therapeutics
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Extrinsic Iron Staining in Infant Teeth from Vitamin Supplement Containing Iron

Adam Gailey1, Gerardo Rivera Silva2 and Hector R Martínez-Menchaca1*
1Department of Orthodontics, Pediatric Dentistry and Special Care, University of Louisville, USA
2Department of Basic Sciences, University of Monterrey, Mexico
*Corresponding Author: Hector R Martínez-Menchaca, Department of Orthodontics, Pediatric Dentistry and Special Care, University of Louisville, 501 S. Preston Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 40202, USA, Tel: 1-502-8527601 Email:

A 2 year-old male presented with black stain on teeth. The mother reported that he had iron deficiency at birth without specifying the cause. He received a vitamin supplement with iron during 23 months. The oral examination showed a black stain on the exterior of his front upper teeth (Figure 1). He was diagnosed with extrinsic teeth staining associated with iron consumption. Scraping of affected teeth eliminated the extrinsic staining. The origin of this black stain is due to chemical synergy between hydrogen sulfide producing microflora with the insoluble ferric compound.

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Figure 1: Black stains on upper teeth correlated with iron consumption.

Citation: Gailey A, Silva GR, Menchaca HRM (2017) Extrinsic Iron Staining in Infant Teeth from Vitamin Supplement Containing Iron. Pediatr Ther 7: i121.

Copyright: © 2017 Gailey A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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