DESCRIPTION A healthy 18-year-old male patient came for a routine dental examination. His medical history was uneventful. Mandibular left central incisors exhibited small prominent cusp on its lingual surface (figure 1). The cusp was teatlike, projected from the cement–enamel junction and extended halfway to the incisal edge. The cusp measured 4.5 mm in length (incisocervically), 3.5 mm in widt...

Esthetics is a prime concern for a young lady. Any anomaly in the anterior tooth may create anxiety and depression. This anxiety and depression may hamper her married life and overall personality. This case report reveals an unerupted right central incisor situated in a strange position, creating space in the maxillary anterior region and giving an unesthetic appearance. Autotransplantation is ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of permanent tooth anomalies in patients attending the graduate orthodontic clinic at the State University of New York at Buffalo. MATERIALS AND METHODS Charts of 496 subjects (310 females and 186 males) met the inclusion criteria for this study. The mean ages were 16 years and 3 months for the combined gender sample that received orthodontic treatment in...

Tooth agenesis is the most common dental anomaly. The aim of this retrospective study was to identify common patterns of tooth agenesis in a sample of 92 patients (55 females and 37 males; mean age 27.7 years) with non-syndromic severe hypodontia. The Tooth Agenesis Code (TAC) procedure was used for that purpose. The patients in this study were missing between 6 and 22 permanent teeth (mean 11....

the :union: of two different dental sprouts which can happen in any phase of dental development is commonly called fusion. this developmental anomaly may cause clinical problems including esthetic impairment, which are mainly treated by endodontic and surgical treatments. there are a few reports of conservative not invasive treatment of fused incisors teeth through restorative or prosthetic tec...

introduction: many epidemiological studies have been conducted to determine the prevalence of the various types of the dental anomalies. the aim of the present study was determination of developmental and acquired dental anomalies in patients attending the faculty of dentistry in rasht, iran. materials and methods: in this retrospective cross-sectional study, 1224 digital panoramic ra-diographs...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of impacted and supernumerary teeth, apart from third molars. STUDY DESIGN This was a retrospective study of 1.239 panoramic radiographs taken of patients who presented to the Department of Dentoalveolar Surgery, Implantology and Radiology at the School of Dentistry of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece be...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence dental anomalies and whethera significant association exists between consanguinity marriage among Arabic orthodontic patients in Israel. Pretreatment panoramic radiographs 513 (38% males 62% females) were examined detect related number, size, shape, eruption. A chi-square test carried out associations anomalies, gender, marriage. results ind...

Certain chemotherapeutic agents used for malignancies in early childhood may cause abnormal tooth and root development. The panoramic examination of a patient who received chemotherapy hepatoblastoma at the age 18 months showed maxillary mandibular first molars with clinically normal-looking crowns insufficient development, which were diagnosed molar-incisor malformation (MIM). review patient's...

Double or fusion of the teeth is a primary developmental anomaly union of two independently developing primary or permanent teeth. The tooth fusion may contribute to various significant problems such as crowding, caries and periodontal diseases and they may be associated with anomalies in the succeeding permanent dentition which necessitate careful examination & proper treatment planning becaus...