Dental Findings and Treatment in Consanguinity Associated Congenital Chronic Familial Neutropenia

The purpose of this report is to describe dental findings and treatment of an 11-year old male patient and a 5-year old female patient, children of first cousins, suffering from severe benign congenital chronic familial neutropenia. This case report emphazises the importance of differential diagnosis of immunodeficiencies including congenital chronic familial neutropenia in the background of severe periodontal diseases and/or diffuse carious lesions in children.

congenital chronic familial neutropenia, dental treatment, neutrophil defects, immunodeficiency

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