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 Tetracycline is a broad‐spectrum antibiotic commonly used for infections

 Tetracycline has several different analogues such as doxycycline, oxytetracycline, minocycline, chlortetracycline, demeclocycline

 Tetracycline can stain teeth if ingested by the mother in the third trimester or by the child during the years of tooth formation of deciduous and permanent dentition

 The discoloration, which is permanent, varies from yellow or grey to brown (Figure 1.12)

 Administration of tetracycline to pregnant women must be avoided during the second or third trimester of gestation and to children up to eight years of age.

 Tetracycline‐stained teeth must be differentiated from dentinogenesis imperfectaFigure 1.12 Tetracycline‐induced grey/brown discolouration of deciduous teeth in a child(source: by kind permission of Professor Charles Dunlap, Kansas City, Kansas, USA).