Supernumerary teeth are considered as one of the most significant dental anomalies during the primary and early mixed dentition stages. They are of great concern to the dentists and parents because of the eruption, occlusal, and esthetic problems they can cause. Supernumerary teeth occur more frequently in the permanent dentition but rarely in primary dentition. Mesiodens is the most common typ...

Hyperdontia or supernumerary teeth without associated syndrome is a rare phenomenon, as supernumerary teeth are usually associated with cleft lip and palate or other syndromes such as Gardner's syndrome, cleidocranial dysplasia, and so on. Five patients with supernumerary teeth visited our department. They had no familial history or other pathology, certain treatment protocols was modified due ...

The aim of this investigation was to study children with supernumerary teeth who visited the Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Government Dental College and Hospital, Rohtak, Haryana, India. Only children with supernumerary teeth were included in the study while patients having supernumerary teeth with associated syndromes were excluded. Supernumeraries were detected by clinic...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com commonly seen in permanent dentition. The incidence of supernumerary teeth is 1-3% and approximately 90-98% of supernumerary teeth occur in the maxilla. Males are affected twice as frequently as females [1]. Mesiodens is the most frequently occurring supernumerary tooth located palatal to the central incisors and conical morphology was found to be m...

AIM The purpose of this case report is to present a case of a non-syndrome male patient with multiple supplemental supernumerary teeth in three quadrants of his mouth. BACKGROUND Supernumerary teeth are described as the teeth formed in excess of the number found in a normal dentition. Prevalence of supernumerary teeth varies between 0.1% and 3.8% in the general Caucasian population. Multiple ...

Objective. This case report presents 3-year follow-up of a case of nonsyndromic multiple supernumerary teeth (NSMST) with 11 supernumerary teeth, 2 of which showed subsequent formation. Case Report. A 10-year-old girl was referred to the dental clinic with the chief complaint of delayed eruption. Radiographic examination showed 9 retained supernumerary teeth. The treatment plan consisted of ext...

Background: The prevalence of dental anomalies in children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) has been said to be higher than in the normal children; however, such findings have not been expressed for different racial groups. Aim: To determine the prevalence of anomalies in children with CLP and to ascertain if there were any differences between the prevalence figures for CLP and non-CLP children....

SUPERNUMERARY puncta were noted by MacKenzie (1854), several cases of supernumerary puncta on the lid margin, the skin of the eyelid, and the conjunctival surface have been reported in the literature. Occasionally, we have also seen cases of supernumerary puncta on the lid margin. We have found only two references (Schoute, 1901; Hamburger, 1937) to supernumerary puncta on the caruncle in the a...

The afferent projection of supernumerary sensory neurons was examined in the cricket cercal sensory system. When a right cercus was exchanged for a left cercus the growth of supernumerary cerci was induced. The supernumerary cerci which formed tended to appear medial and/or lateral in a simple left leads to right exchange and were always right handed. Distal to the region where transplant and s...

Supernumerary teeth are those which are additional or in excess of the normal number. They can be either single or multiple, unilateral or bilateral and can be present anywhere in the dental arch with predilection for the premaxilla. Supernumerary teeth are mostly classified on position and form. Timing of surgical intervention of supernumerary teeth has been controversial with various authors ...