klinefelter syndrome includes a group of chromosomal disorders with at least one  additional  x  chromosome  in  male  karyotype  (46,xy).  up  to  now, different dental manifestations such as taurodontism, congenital absence of permanent teeth, shovel incisors, occlusal anomalies and increased permanent tooth size have been reported. a case of klinefelter syndrome with very rare dental feature...

gardner’s syndrome is a genetic condition demonstrating an autosomal dominant trait and characterized by the multiple colonic polyps (familial adenomatous polyposis coli) with sebaceous cysts and jaw osteomas. various dental abnormalities present in patient’s suffering with this syndrome includes multiple impacted or unerupted teeth, supernumerary teeth, hypodontia, compound odontomes and denti...

Interdisciplinary care for the management of impacted teeth provides a holistic method of treating patients. Careful planning is necessary to reach the desired treatment goals. This article attempts to highlight the importance of diagnosis and adequate treatment planning for successful eruption of impacted teeth. The concept of forced eruption to improve the bone morphology of the impacted teet...

intraosseous movement of an unerupted tooth across the midline of the jaw is known as dental transmigration. this infrequent event is mostly found in the mandibular canines. there are four new cases of mandibular canine transmigration presented here. the literature on this anomalous phenomenon is also reviewed.

background: since there has been no published report on the impact of permanent canines in shiraz population, this study was conducted to investigate the prevalence and the location of the impacted permanent canines in patients referred to the department of radiology of shiraz dental school in 2012. materials and methods: this was an analytic cross-sectional study on 1012 panoramic radiographs....

a case of a compound odontoma which caused delayed eruption of right maxillary central incisor in a ten year old girl is presented with clinical and radiographic findings. the patient presented with complaint of a hard painless swelling in the right anterior region of the maxilla and absence of right maxillary central incisor. after clinical examination, periapical and occlusal radiographs of t...