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Case Reports
. 2021 Feb;75(1):78-81.
doi: 10.5455/medarh.2021.75.78-81.

Supernumerary and Supplementary Teeth in a Non-syndromic Patients

Nermin Suljkanovic  1 , Dzenan Balic  2 , Nadina Begic  1
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Case Reports

Supernumerary and Supplementary Teeth in a Non-syndromic Patients

Nermin Suljkanovic et al. Med Arch. 2021 Feb.

Abstract

Background: Irregularities in the number of teeth can also occur in deciduous and in permanent dentition.

Objective: The aim of this article is to report the case of a seven years old child and a 27 years old male patient affected by a numeric dental anomaly.

Methods: This paper has shown the pathologic condition characterized by the presence of supernumerary tooth (mesiodens) and supernumerary canine as well as supplementary premolars in a non-syndromic patients. Clinical and instrumental examinations were made to perform a correct orthodontic examination and diagnosis. A young patient was affected by numeric dental anomaly in the upper jaw. An adult patient was affected by numeric anomaly in both jaws, supplementary premolars in lower jaw and a supernumerary canine in lower and upper jaw.

Discussion: The aim of surgical-orthodontic treatment was extraction of the erupted supernumerary teeth to obtain the physiologic eruption and placement of the permanent ones.

Conclusion: Therapy of supernumerary/ supplementary teeth is the extraction. But also, an excess tooth in the dentition can be left as a replacement tooth, due to a previously lost permanent tooth from the dentition, if its biological value and potential is sufficient to complete the dentition both functionally and aesthetically.

Keywords: Supplemental and supernumerary teeth; dental anomaly; mesiodens.

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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. An image of mesiodens in a seven year old patient
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Radiographic image of a mesiodens, no other supernumerary teeth are visible
Figure 3.
Figure 3.. Mesiodens examined after extraction
Figure 4.
Figure 4.. An image of orthopantomogram, showing supernumerary and suplementary teeth
Figure 5.
Figure 5.. The supplementary tooth took place and function of a normal permanent premolar
Figure 6.
Figure 6.. Supernumarary lower left premolar and a supernumerary canine
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