1994 Volume 43 Issue 3 Pages 489-493
Congenital painless anhidrosis is thought to be a rare autosomal recessive inheritance disease. Our report is centered on intraoral findings of a patient, who was referred to us by a pediatrician because of an ulceration of the tongue (the chief complaint), diagnosed as having this disease. The patient was a 6-year-old girl. General findings included body weight, 19kg; height, 113cm; and IQ, 55%. She had numerous scars on her hands, but her hair, nails, and eyebrows were normal. Intraoral findings included deformity and ulceration of the tongue, an inverted and impacted incisor, an impacted supernumerary tooth at the apex of an incisor of the upper jaw, anadontia 652|11-6, and a thin lower jaw.
