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Double toothed mandibular third molar – A rare anomaly – case report

Category CASE_STUDY
Authors Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Rudresh K B, Prashanth R, Abhishek Khatua, Vinod Kumar
Abstract Abberantmorphoanatomy of tooth are not uncommon, like fusion,gemination, concresence, dilacerations, talons cusp, dens in dente, dens evagenatus, taurodontismand supernumerary tooth. But gemination or fusion of mandibular third molar is a rare anomaly. Which has been documented in very few case reports. As gemination and fusion mostly occurs in the maxillary anterior tooth region. Here we present a case of gemination in mandibular 3rd molar with its clinical, radiographic and management perspective. KEYWORDS: twinning,gemination, morphodifferentiation , genetics.
Year 2018
Month April
Volume 7
Issue 2
Published On 19 Apr 2018
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