A novel report of dental development pattern in a 3-year-old girl with three congenitally missing primary canines: A review of the literature and a case study

Dentists may encounter patients with numerical dental anomalies in clinical practice and understanding of these conditions would allow early detection as well as intervention. The absence of one or more teeth congenitally is referred as hypodontia. This dental anomaly is rarely reported in primary d...

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Main Authors: Sreekanth Kumar Mallineni, Jayakumar Jayaraman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry
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Online Access:http://www.jisppd.com/article.asp?issn=0970-4388;year=2021;volume=39;issue=3;spage=321;epage=324;aulast=Mallineni
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description Dentists may encounter patients with numerical dental anomalies in clinical practice and understanding of these conditions would allow early detection as well as intervention. The absence of one or more teeth congenitally is referred as hypodontia. This dental anomaly is rarely reported in primary dentition and the most commonly affected teeth in the primary dentition are mandibular lateral incisors and primary canines are remarkably very rare and this entity has not been often reported. This case study was aimed to report a 3-year-old Indian girl with the absence of three canines primary dentition and also evaluate the overall dental development pattern of developing permanent teeth. Furthermore, a new finding for pediatric dentists that the development of permanent canines in case of missing primary canines.
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spelling doaj.art-82286fe955a84c00a1bb99b9b4de80362022-12-22T03:31:21ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry0970-43881998-39052021-01-0139332132410.4103/jisppd.jisppd_56_21A novel report of dental development pattern in a 3-year-old girl with three congenitally missing primary canines: A review of the literature and a case studySreekanth Kumar MallineniJayakumar JayaramanDentists may encounter patients with numerical dental anomalies in clinical practice and understanding of these conditions would allow early detection as well as intervention. The absence of one or more teeth congenitally is referred as hypodontia. This dental anomaly is rarely reported in primary dentition and the most commonly affected teeth in the primary dentition are mandibular lateral incisors and primary canines are remarkably very rare and this entity has not been often reported. This case study was aimed to report a 3-year-old Indian girl with the absence of three canines primary dentition and also evaluate the overall dental development pattern of developing permanent teeth. Furthermore, a new finding for pediatric dentists that the development of permanent canines in case of missing primary canines.http://www.jisppd.com/article.asp?issn=0970-4388;year=2021;volume=39;issue=3;spage=321;epage=324;aulast=Mallinenicaninedental age estimationdental anomalyhypodontiaprimary teeth
spellingShingle Sreekanth Kumar Mallineni
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A novel report of dental development pattern in a 3-year-old girl with three congenitally missing primary canines: A review of the literature and a case study
Journal of Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry
canine
dental age estimation
dental anomaly
hypodontia
primary teeth
title A novel report of dental development pattern in a 3-year-old girl with three congenitally missing primary canines: A review of the literature and a case study
title_full A novel report of dental development pattern in a 3-year-old girl with three congenitally missing primary canines: A review of the literature and a case study
title_fullStr A novel report of dental development pattern in a 3-year-old girl with three congenitally missing primary canines: A review of the literature and a case study
title_full_unstemmed A novel report of dental development pattern in a 3-year-old girl with three congenitally missing primary canines: A review of the literature and a case study
title_short A novel report of dental development pattern in a 3-year-old girl with three congenitally missing primary canines: A review of the literature and a case study
title_sort novel report of dental development pattern in a 3 year old girl with three congenitally missing primary canines a review of the literature and a case study
topic canine
dental age estimation
dental anomaly
hypodontia
primary teeth
url http://www.jisppd.com/article.asp?issn=0970-4388;year=2021;volume=39;issue=3;spage=321;epage=324;aulast=Mallineni
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