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Of palms, soles, and gums
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Of not quite venerable status, Papillon-Lefèvre
syndrome was first described in 1924. That was a year after I was born
and one never likes to think of oneself as venerable. However, as a
graduate fellow in pathology at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New
York, USA in the late 1940s, my initial exposure to the general concept
of syndromes had only just occurred (acanthosis nigricans and gastric
adenocarcinoma). Although I had high hopes that other oral syndromes
existed for me to identify (the idea of discovering a new one did not
enter my mind at the time), I remember talking about my new found
interest to almost everyone I encountered at Columbia University Dental
School, my hope being that they would show me a new one. In late 1949, Dr Sam Rosenthal, Chair of Pediatric Dentistry, knowing of my
interests, asked me to see a child who was experiencing exfoliation of
his entire dentition.
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