Cuddling Teeth: A New Terminology

Literature is replete with information on the diverse patterns exhibited by impacted teeth and a clinical scenario in which >1 impacted teeth appears in close proximity is documented very rarely. Occasionally, molars are found to be impacted in interesting patterns which were described previously...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Anmol, Mittal, Gaurav, Uppada, Uday Kiran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Original Article – Evaluative Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6585218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31293930
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ams.ams_254_18
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description Literature is replete with information on the diverse patterns exhibited by impacted teeth and a clinical scenario in which >1 impacted teeth appears in close proximity is documented very rarely. Occasionally, molars are found to be impacted in interesting patterns which were described previously as “rosette teeth” or “kissing molars”. This article intends to introduce a new term, namely, “cuddling teeth” to broadly describe the clinical presentations where 2 or >2 impacted teeth are found in close approximation.
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spelling pubmed-65852182019-07-10 Cuddling Teeth: A New Terminology Agarwal, Anmol Mittal, Gaurav Uppada, Uday Kiran Ann Maxillofac Surg Original Article – Evaluative Study Literature is replete with information on the diverse patterns exhibited by impacted teeth and a clinical scenario in which >1 impacted teeth appears in close proximity is documented very rarely. Occasionally, molars are found to be impacted in interesting patterns which were described previously as “rosette teeth” or “kissing molars”. This article intends to introduce a new term, namely, “cuddling teeth” to broadly describe the clinical presentations where 2 or >2 impacted teeth are found in close approximation. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6585218/ /pubmed/31293930 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ams.ams_254_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Annals of Maxillofacial Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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