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. 2018 Sep-Oct;22(5):715-717.
doi: 10.4103/ijem.IJEM_56_18.

Multiple impacted Permanent Teeth-An Indicator for Early Detection of Hypoparathyroidism: A Rare Case Report

B Suresh Babu  1 , Thatapudi A Shankar  2 , Moon Chattaraj  2 , K Kongkana  3 , S Venugopal  4 , Abhishek Singh Nayyar  5
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Multiple impacted Permanent Teeth-An Indicator for Early Detection of Hypoparathyroidism: A Rare Case Report

B Suresh Babu et al. Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2018 Sep-Oct.
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Clinical photograph of feet (upper) and right hand (lower left- front view and lower right- rear view of same) showing abnormal third, fourth and fifth phalanges in the feet, being almost half of the adjacent fingers, with right hand showing a soft tissue mass in the lateral ulnar surface along with prominent middle phalanx of long finger
Figure 2
Figure 2
Intra-oral photographs (left- maxillary arch; right- mandibular arch) showing multiple, clinically missing permanent and retained primary teeth
Figure 3
Figure 3
Hand-wrist radiograph of right hand (left) revealing alteration in bone architecture with mild changes in trabecular pattern and in the thickness of the cortices with orthopantomograph (OPG) (right) revealing multiple unerupted and impacted permanent teeth and retained primary teeth in both jaws
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