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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 187-189 |
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Primary double teeth in siblings: A report
Santanu Mukhopadhyay1, Chiranjit Ghosh2, Pinaki Roy3, Mrinal Chakraborty4
1 Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Dr. R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Haldia Institute of Dental Sciences, Haldia, West Bengal, India
3 Department of Orthodontics, Dr. R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
4 Department of Dentistry, Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Santanu Mukhopadhyay
Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Dr. R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0976-433X.188807
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Double teeth are developmental malformations affecting both primary and permanent dentition. This article describes primary double teeth in both the siblings of a family. A 5-year-old boy had a bilateral distribution of anomaly involving lower lateral incisor and canine. Radiographic analysis revealed that his right mandibular permanent lateral incisor was missing. His sister, a 3½-year-old girl, also had double teeth affecting mandibular left lateral incisor and canine. She displayed no other dental anomaly. The boy presented shovel-shaped maxillary permanent central incisors. Family involvement of double teeth is very rare. Double teeth in siblings and simultaneous occurrence of multiple dental anomalies probably show a hereditary etiology. |
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