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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 180-182 |
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Nonsyndromic form of oligodontia in a Chinese male patient: A rare case report
Preethy Mary Donald1, Ankita Arora2, Renjith George3
1 Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Melaka, Malaysia
2 Department of Pedodontics, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Melaka, Malaysia
3 Department of Oral Pathology, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Melaka, Malaysia
Correspondence Address:
Preethy Mary Donald
Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Jln Batu Hampar, Bukit Baru 75150, Melaka
Malaysia
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DOI: 10.4103/jioh.jioh_117_17
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Oligodontia is one of the developmental disturbances seen in human with more than six congenitally missing teeth. Two forms of oligodontia which exist are the syndromic form and the nonsyndromic form. Mutation or deletion of MSX and PAX genes are implicated in oligodontia. Missing teeth often compromises patient's esthetics, function, and causes mental stress. Here, we highlight a rare case report of a nonsyndromic form of oligodontia with concomitant dental anomalies like taurodontism in maxillary permanent first molar and congenitally missing canine in a 17-year-old apparently normal Chinese male patient.
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