Occurrence of the fused permanent mandibular lateral incisor and canine

Fusion is the union of two normally adjacent tooth germs resulting in the formation of a single large tooth. The incidence of fused teeth is 0.1% in the permanent and 0.5% in the primary dentitions and it may be unilateral or bilateral. The purpose of this article is to report a rare case of unilate...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Zhihui, Wang, Xiao, Jiang, Liwei, Xu, Si
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Dental Sciences of the Republic of China 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6395270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30894994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jds.2015.12.003
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Sumario:Fusion is the union of two normally adjacent tooth germs resulting in the formation of a single large tooth. The incidence of fused teeth is 0.1% in the permanent and 0.5% in the primary dentitions and it may be unilateral or bilateral. The purpose of this article is to report a rare case of unilateral fusion of permanent mandibular lateral incisor and canine with two pulp chambers and a single root canal.

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