A five-year-old Japanese girl was referred to our clinic for non-eruption of the teeth. Panoramic radiographs revealed absence of all teeth of both primary and permanent dentitions. She showed hypotricosis, hypohidrosis, and anodontia. In this article, the reported cases of anodontia were reviewed and the fabricating procedure of full dentures for a young child was described.

Ectodermal dysplasias are rare hereditary disorders characterized by abnormal development of certain tissues and structures of ectodermal origin. The condition is important for dentists as it affects teeth resulting in hypodontia or anodontia and dentist plays an important role in rehabilitation of the patient. Affected young children with anodontia not only have difficulties in eating and spea...

The relationship between maxillary lateral incisor anodontia and the palatal displacement of unerupted maxillary canines cannot be considered as a multiple tooth abnormality with defined genetic etiology in order to be regarded as a "syndrome". Neither were the involved genes identified and located in the human genome, nor was it presumed on which chromosome the responsible gene would be locate...

The aim was to present the successful esthetical and functional rehabilitation of partial anodontia in a case of severe ectodermal dysplasia with complete atrophy of the jaws. A 17-year-old male with Class III malocclusion with partial anodontia sought dental implant treatment. His expectation was that of Class I occlusion. The challenge in the case was to match the expectation, reality, and th...

Tooth agenesis is the congenital lack of one or more of the deciduous or permanent teeth. Oligodontia is the agenesis of six or more permanent teeth (excluding third molars), whereas absence of less than six teeth is referred to as hypodontia. Anodontia refers to the absence of all deciduous and permanent teeth. Tooth agenesis occurs more frequently among a few specific teeth (lateral incisors,...