Is a Pulpless Tooth a Dead Tooth?

The Pulpless Tooth: A Case of Calcified Pulp Canal

A 32-year-old male patient came to the department of oral medicine and radiology with a chief complaint of discoloured teeth in upper front tooth region since 2 years. He gave no history of pain and a history of fall 4 years ago. Past medical and dental history were noncontributory. Intraoral examination revealed yellowish discoloration of coronal aspect of left maxillary central incisor (Figur...

Paleobiology: A Tooth for a Tooth

Many vertebrates replace teeth through shedding of the functional tooth. New analyses of a fossil fish demonstrate that shedding involved tooth resorption, a primitive feature in bony fishes, but absent in sharks and their relatives.

Tooth in Ethmoid Sinus: A Case Report

Ectopic eruption of teeth occurs in a variety of locations. Commonly seen in palate and maxillary sinus, they have also been reported in nasal cavity, orbit, mandibular condyle, coronoid process, and facial skin.Here, we report a rare case of recurrent sinusitis caused by ectopic tooth in right ethmoid sinus and successful endoscopic removal of it. The symptoms of the patient disappeared after ...

Whole Tooth Regeneration Using a Bioengineered Tooth

A Median Incisor Tooth

Sir,?I would like to ask your readers for some reference to a case of a median incisor tooth if any of them are acquainted with one. Last year a prisoner in my jail was found to have what appeared to be one in the upper jaw. Situated between the two central incisors, which were very long and tush-like, and had their enamel worn away half way up, was a shorter rounded peg-like tooth which also h...