Abstract

NOGUEIRA, Jorge Sá Elias; GONCALVES FILHO, Antonio José Gil; MODA, Larissa Barbosa  and  OLIVEIRA, Roberta Pimentel de. Riga-Fede disease: double case report - a conservative and other radical. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Cir. Dent. [online]. 2014, vol.68, n.2, pp. 100-104. ISSN 0004-5276.

Riga-Fede disease is a traumatic ulceration on the ventral region of the tongue, usually associated with natal or neonatal teeth. This lesion can result in an inappropriate milk suction and feeding, leading the newborn in risk of inadequate nutrients intake. Under this circumstances, dental intervention must be done as a conservative treatment (smoothening off the incisors edges) or radical (extraction). Decision for the radical treatment is taken due the presence of nutritional deficiency by breastfeeding difficulty, in cases of advanced dental mobility, teeth with initial rhizogenesis and larger lesions. The main objective of the present study is discuss two cases with different treatments, a conservative over a patient with 28 days of life, quiet deficiency feeding and no weight loss. And other radical, on a 6 days life patient with inappropriate feeding and and weight loss.

Keywords : tongue; infant; pediatric dentistry.