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This study aims to evaluate the dental status, including oral hygiene, caries prevalence, and malocclusions, as well as parental awareness of dental complications, in children with XLH in Bulgaria, particularly those receiving or about to begin burosumab treatment, and to compare their oral health status with that of healthy children. Eleven children with XLH (seven girls, four boys, aged 2.5\u201317 years), nine receiving burosumab, were assessed and compared with eleven age- and gender-matched healthy children (seven girls, four boys, aged 2.5\u201317 years) without XLH or systemic conditions affecting dental health. Parental awareness of dental implications was assessed via a questionnaire, revealing no awareness of potential complications. Oral hygiene, measured using the Oral Hygiene Index-Simplified (OHI-s), was poor in 66.67% of children, with an average of 6.45 \u00b1 5.80 carious lesions per child, and was highest in the 11\u201316 age group. Malocclusions were observed in 63.64% of children, and spontaneous endodontic infections occurred in 18.18%. Compared with healthy children, patients with XLH had significantly worse oral hygiene (p = 0.013) and a higher caries prevalence (p = 0.001). Children with XLH exhibit poor oral hygiene, a high caries burden, and frequent malocclusions, compounded by a lack of parental awareness of dental risks. These findings underscore the need for targeted dental interventions and education in XLH management, including the integration of routine dental assessments and structured parental education programs into existing clinical protocols to improve oral health outcomes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/reports8030151","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,20]],"date-time":"2025-08-20T13:18:14Z","timestamp":1755695894000},"page":"151","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Oral Health Status and Parental Awareness in Children with X-Linked Hypophosphatemic Rickets: A Case-Control Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-4485-6402","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Victoria","family":"Zlateva","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Medical University of Sofia, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1577-4362","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Krasimir","family":"Hristov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Medical University of Sofia, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2969-5681","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zdravka","family":"Todorova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Clinic of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Specialized Hospital for Active Treatment of Pediatric Diseases \u201cProf. Ivan Mitev\u201d, Medical University of Sofia, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ralitsa","family":"Bogovska-Gigova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Medical University of Sofia, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"17","DOI":"10.3345\/cep.2022.01459","article-title":"X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets: From diagnosis to management","volume":"67","author":"Park","year":"2024","journal-title":"Clin. 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