Skin diseases affecting the teeth

Skin diseases affecting the teeth include:

• Congenital erythropoetic porphyria
• Congenital syphilis
• Congenital hypertrichosis terminalis
• Ectodermal dysplasia
• Epidermolysis bullosa
• Gardner syndrome
• Job (hyperimmunoglobulin E) syndrome
• Hypomelanosis of Ito
• Incontinentia pigmenti
• Leprosy
• Leukocyte adhesion deficiency syndrome
• Naegeli-Franceschetti-Jadassohn syndrome
• Gorlin (naevoid basal cell carcinoma) syndrome
• Hereditary palmoplantar keratoderma (Papillon-LeFèvre syndrome)
• Pachyonychia congenita
• Rothmund-Thomson syndrome
• Sjögren-Larsson syndrome
• Tuberous sclerosis
• Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Teeth may also be damaged by scurvy (vitamin c deficiency), acrodynia (mercury poisoning) and tetracycline taken in infancy or early childhood.