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Hyperdontia is the condition of having supernumerary teeth, or teeth that appear in addition to the regular number of teeth. They can appear in any area of the dental arch.  

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Arnold J Malerman, DDS

Orthodontist at Fort Washington Orthodontics

6y

Worth discussing. Were there 4 deciduous incisors that exfoliated, leaving room for eruption of 4 supernumerary teeth that were followed by 4 lingually displaced permanent incisors? Or is this simply 4 permanent incisors that were displaced lingual to 4 non-resorbing deciduous incisors, the cause of lingual displacement being arch length insufficiency? As there is no maxillary midline diastema I would think the problem is crowding/lingual displacement rather than hypodontia. Important that this child see an Orthodontist as soon as possible as simply removing the overretained deciduous incisors will not resolve the overall tooth-size to bone-size discrepancy.

Robert A Lamont DDS

Owner/Operator at Robert A Lamont DDS

6y

Ortho consult needed... ASAP.

Barakat Nasher

Dental implants, zirconia, fixed orthodontics.

6y

Excuse me Drs. These are normal deciduous teeth with typical anatomy and not supernumerary!.

Is it just me or does it look like the wrong row of teeth were taken out?

David C. Page, DDS

Author, GP DDS, Functional Jaw Orthopedics & Orthodontics, Speaker, Promotes Vitamin D3 To Calm COVID-19! I

6y

Reminds me of a Dental Anatomy type quiz around 1977. Primaries for sure..."4 on the floor." Smile-On!

Kianor Shah DMD, MBA

Dentist, Entrepreneur, Visionary

6y

Those look like permanent teeth coming in lingual to the decidious teeth that were extracted...

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