Question 169 · LDEK · Developmental disorders of teeth
“Most often it affects a single tooth, less common - two or three teeth. The affected tooth usually appears smaller than a normal tooth, may have a typical shape, but more often it has a conical form with a shorter root. Very often its presence disturb the eruption of permanent incisors in the maxilla, less often in the mandible. It can be a cause of the cyst, resorption of roots of neighboring teeth, or translocation”. That is a description of:
- A. invaginated tooth.
- B. mesiodens.
- C. Turner’s tooth.
- D. crocodile dentition.
- E. Hutchinson’s teeth.
Hint
Look for a supernumerary tooth typically located in the maxillary midline that obstructs the central incisors.
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