Jeremiah Robert Moshy
1, Karpal Singh Sohal
2*, Mark Chindia
31 Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
2 Postgraduate Student, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Dental Services, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
3 Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Abstract
A case is reported of a 26-year-old blind man with hypodontia and multiple apparently underdeveloped impacted teeth. The
patient reported that he had progressively developed visual impairment at the age of 11 years whence he became totally
blind when he turned 12 years. The aim of this report is to open an academic and professional debate on the challenges of its
definitive diagnosis and appropriate intervention.Blindness is not reported in any of the previously described syndromes;
therefore, concurrent manifestation of “hypodontia, blindness, failure of eruption and digital lesions” can be proposed as a
syndrome. However, in the absence of genetic studies, it is difficult to characterize this case with any one of the specifically
documented syndromes; therefore, academic and professional discourse is suggested with regard to appropriate intervention