MISSING TEETH INHERITED

Case Report: Congenitally Missing Teeth

Congenitally missing of maxillary lateral incisors is one of the most common patterns of hypodontia. This paper presents a nine year old boy with congenital missing of lateral incisors. Familial history showed that, his mother, aunts, uncle and grandmother have also congenital absence of lateral incisors.

Orthodontic management of missing teeth.

case report: congenitally missing teeth

congenitally missing of maxillary lateral incisors is one of the most common patterns of hypodontia. this paper presents a nine year old boy with congenital missing of lateral incisors. familial history showed that, his mother, aunts, uncle and grandmother have also congenital absence of lateral incisors.

Autotransplantation for failing and missing anterior teeth.

We must congratulate the journal and the authors for publication of a case report of autotransplantation (Rao J, Fields HW, Chacon GE. Case report: Autotransplantation for a missing permanent maxillary incisor. Pediatr Dent 2008;30:160-6). This is a well established procedure in Europe where premolar transplantation dates back to the 1960s. We find autotransplantation of premolars a very import...

Prevalence of congenitally missing permanent teeth in Iran

BACKGROUND Hypodontia or congenitally missing teeth is among dental anomalies with different prevalence in each region. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of congenitally missing permanent teeth in Iranian population. MATERIALS AND METHODS A descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study was done. Panoramic radiographs of 2422 Iranian patients (1539 girls and 883 boys)...