Bilateral Supernumerary Deciduous Maxillary Lateral Incisors with Fusion: Report of a Rare Case

Ghaderi, Faezeh; Rafiee, Azade

Bilateral Supernumerary Deciduous Maxillary Lateral Incisors with Fusion: Report of a Rare Case

Document Type : Case Reports

Authors

Faezeh Ghaderi ¹

Azade Rafiee ²

¹ Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

² Postgraduate Student of Research Committee, Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

Dental anomaly in number, size and shape might be due to excessive activation of dental lamina during the morpho-differentiation stage. Fusion is one of the most unusual and rare anomalies of shape of the teeth. It frequently involves the supernumerary teeth resulting in a challenging differential diagnosis with gemination. Dental anomalies may result in different problems such as delayed eruption and crowding; thus, early diagnosis is required for effective intervention and proper in-time treatment. The case reported here is a 4-year-old girl with bilateral supernumerary primary maxillary lateral incisors associated with fusion between primary maxillary left lateral incisor and supernumerary lateral tooth.Key Words: Supernumerary Tooth; Deciduous Tooth; Fusion