Unilateral Maxillary Canine Agenesis: A Case Report and Literature Review

Congenital absence of maxillary permanent canines is an extremely rare condition, which may appear as part of a syndrome or as a nonsyndromic form. Nonsyndromic canine agenesis combined with other types of tooth agenesis has occasionally been described in the literature but isolated cases are rarely...

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Autores principales: Koç, Nagihan, Çağırankaya, L. Berna, Akkaya, Nursel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25177502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/685014
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author Koç, Nagihan
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description Congenital absence of maxillary permanent canines is an extremely rare condition, which may appear as part of a syndrome or as a nonsyndromic form. Nonsyndromic canine agenesis combined with other types of tooth agenesis has occasionally been described in the literature but isolated cases are rarely observed. This report presents an isolated case of maxillary permanent canine agenesis in a healthy 18-year-old female patient and a literature review on the prevalence, etiology, and differential diagnosis of the condition.
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spelling pubmed-41423792014-08-31 Unilateral Maxillary Canine Agenesis: A Case Report and Literature Review Koç, Nagihan Çağırankaya, L. Berna Akkaya, Nursel Case Rep Dent Case Report Congenital absence of maxillary permanent canines is an extremely rare condition, which may appear as part of a syndrome or as a nonsyndromic form. Nonsyndromic canine agenesis combined with other types of tooth agenesis has occasionally been described in the literature but isolated cases are rarely observed. This report presents an isolated case of maxillary permanent canine agenesis in a healthy 18-year-old female patient and a literature review on the prevalence, etiology, and differential diagnosis of the condition. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4142379/ /pubmed/25177502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/685014 Text en Copyright © 2014 Nagihan Koç et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Unilateral Maxillary Canine Agenesis: A Case Report and Literature Review
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title_fullStr Unilateral Maxillary Canine Agenesis: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Unilateral Maxillary Canine Agenesis: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Unilateral Maxillary Canine Agenesis: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort unilateral maxillary canine agenesis: a case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4142379/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/685014
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