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Systematic Assessment of Mammalian Skull Specimens for Dental and Temporomandibular Joint Pathology
Published on: August 22, 2022
Concomitant hypo-hyperdontia with dens invaginatus
B S Manjunatha1, D Nagarajappa, Santosh Kumar Singh
1Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, K M Shah Dental College and Hospital, Pipariya, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. drmanju26@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Although developmental anomalies of tooth number are quite common in permanent dentition, concomitant occurrence of hypohyperdontia is a very rare mixed numeric anomalous condition of teeth. Very few cases of this condition have been reported in the English literature. Here we report such a rare case noted in a 26 year-old male dental graduate with no other associated systemic condition or syndrome.
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