What is tetracycline?

Tetracycline means the tetracycline family of drugs due to coloring teeth is dental disease. The cause is taking in the development of tooth mineralization of the tetracycline family of drugs, can be incorporated into the tooth tissue, so that the teeth coloring. Tetracycline cause deciduous coloring but also in the mother through the placenta. Tetracycline early yellow, showing a bright yellow fluorescence in the sunlight, and then gradually changes from yellow to check the word, brown or dark gray.

Tooth development, enamel and dentin in a layer of basement membrane on both sides at the same time began to take shape and, when taking tetracyclines drugs into the body after the formation of a yellow layers of dentin and enamel and dentin the deposition of four dental supplies times higher than in the enamel. Also, because the yellow Layer wavy, like the cap, roughly the shape of the teeth. Whole teeth are the color change.

Tetracycline in patients with initially teeth yellow in the sunlight, a bright yellow fluorescence, and then gradually changes from yellow to brown or dark gray, this color change is slow, the sun its role in promoting. In addition, the tetracycline class of drugs not only can How to identify oral cancer and precancerous lesions affect the development of the infant period permanent tooth color, and if pregnant women taking these drugs, but also through the placenta affect fetal stage in the development of deciduous teeth color.