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Dracula tooth: A very rare case report of peg-shaped mandibular incisors

Microdontia is a term used to describe teeth which are smaller than normal. Peg-shaped teeth are type of microdontia, a developmental disturbances of teeth mainly due to congenital reasons. Most commonly affecting single teeth, that is maxillary lateral incisors. Incidence of peg shaped tooth in max...

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Autores principales: Devasya, Ashwin, Sarpangala, Mythri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5210104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28123271
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-1475.195123
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description Microdontia is a term used to describe teeth which are smaller than normal. Peg-shaped teeth are type of microdontia, a developmental disturbances of teeth mainly due to congenital reasons. Most commonly affecting single teeth, that is maxillary lateral incisors. Incidence of peg shaped tooth in maxillary laterals are usually seen and reported. But in mandibular arch it is very rare. Present case, it affected all the incisors of mandibular arch and also the laterals of maxillary arch which is rarest of condition. This case report presents a non syndromic, peg shaped mandibular incisors in a 11 year old male patient.
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spelling pubmed-52101042017-01-25 Dracula tooth: A very rare case report of peg-shaped mandibular incisors Devasya, Ashwin Sarpangala, Mythri J Forensic Dent Sci Case Report Microdontia is a term used to describe teeth which are smaller than normal. Peg-shaped teeth are type of microdontia, a developmental disturbances of teeth mainly due to congenital reasons. Most commonly affecting single teeth, that is maxillary lateral incisors. Incidence of peg shaped tooth in maxillary laterals are usually seen and reported. But in mandibular arch it is very rare. Present case, it affected all the incisors of mandibular arch and also the laterals of maxillary arch which is rarest of condition. This case report presents a non syndromic, peg shaped mandibular incisors in a 11 year old male patient. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5210104/ /pubmed/28123271 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-1475.195123 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Forensic Dental Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Dracula tooth: A very rare case report of peg-shaped mandibular incisors
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title_full Dracula tooth: A very rare case report of peg-shaped mandibular incisors
title_fullStr Dracula tooth: A very rare case report of peg-shaped mandibular incisors
title_full_unstemmed Dracula tooth: A very rare case report of peg-shaped mandibular incisors
title_short Dracula tooth: A very rare case report of peg-shaped mandibular incisors
title_sort dracula tooth: a very rare case report of peg-shaped mandibular incisors
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5210104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28123271
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