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Decembar 2020 • Volume 36 • Number 82

 DENS EVAGINATUS AND DENS INVAGINATUS: A REPORT OF TWO CASES

Shruthi Hegde1,
Jasmine Shanti Kamath1,
Vidya Ajila1,
Subhas Babu1,
Supriya Bhat1





 

NITTE (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY), AB SHETTY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF ORAL MEDICINE AND RADIOLOGY, MANGALORE, INDIA

   
...Abstract


 

Introduction: Developmental disturbances of teeth at the stage of morpho-differentiation have been related to abnormalities associated with changes in the tooth shape and size. Dens evaginatus and dens invaginatus are the developmental variations of the human dentition. Dens evaginatus, a rare anomaly characterized by the presence of a tubercle on the occlusal surface of teeth is seen to occur due to abnormal proliferation and folding of the inner enamel epithelium and part of the dental papilla into the stellate reticulum of the enamel organ; whereas, dens invaginatus is seen to occur due to infolding of the enamel and dentine into the pulp cavity and sometimes extending to the root apex.
Case report:
We report cases with bilateral dens evaginatus in mandibular second premolars and dens invaginatus in maxillary lateral incisor.
Conclusion:
Such developmental anomalies of teeth deserve clinical importance, as high chances of early pulpal pathosis.

 

Key words: dens evaginatus, dens invaginatus, developmental abnormalities

 

...Authors and Reprint Information

Address of correspondence:
Shruthi Hegde, DDM, PhD, Reader
Mangaluru, Karnataka state, India
Email: drshruthihegde@yahoo.co.in



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