Dental enamel defects in children with coeliac disease.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether Dutch children with proven coeliac disease show specific dental enamel defects, and to asses whether children with the same gastrointestinal complaints, but proved no-coeliac disease, lack these specific dental enamel defects.

Materials And Methods: Eighty-one children (53 coeliac patients and 28 control subjects) were examined during the period 2003-2004 in the Oral Surgery Outpatient Clinic of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam.

Result: Twenty-nine (55%) coeliac patients had enamel defects against 5 (18%) control subjects.