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Dental findings in GAPO syndrome: case report
Heloísa Emília Dias da Silveira1, Onofre Francisco Quadros, Reni Raymundo Dalla-Bona
1Department of Surgery and Orthopedics, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. heloisa.silveira@ufrgs.br
Abstract:
This article reports the case of a young female adult with GAPO syndrome who presented as a peculiar dental finding unerupted primary and permanent dentitions, which resembled total anodontia on clinical examination. A cephalometric analysis was performed to investigate the alterations in facial bone development. This is the 9th GAPO syndrome case reported in a Brazilian patient.
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