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Table of Contents for Decembar 2020 • Volume 36 • Number 82 |
DENS EVAGINATUS AND DENS INVAGINATUS: A REPORT OF TWO CASES
Shruthi Hegde1,
NITTE (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY), AB SHETTY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF ORAL MEDICINE AND RADIOLOGY, MANGALORE, INDIA |
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...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.
Key words: dens evaginatus, dens invaginatus, developmental abnormalities
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...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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