Natal teeth: report of two cases

Abstract

Presence of teeth at birth or within a month postdelivery is a rare condition. We report here 2 cases
to highlight their clinical features and discuss their
possible treatment. A 7- days old female newborn
with two mandibular central incisors, noticed by the
parents at birth, with complaint of continuous
crying, inability to suck milk and causing discomfort
to the mother. The left incisor was highly mobile
justifying its extraction. The second case was a
female newborn referred 2 hours after delivery, for
a brownish highly mobile mandibular incisor
noticed by the pediatrician. Extraction was
immediately made to avoid the danger of
aspiration. This phenomenon can lead to
complications either local such as pain on suckling or general such as undernutrition or asphyxia by
aspiration. The decision to maintain or remove
these teeth should be assessed in each case
independently, based on degree of mobility and
interference with breastfeeding.