Double toothed mandibular third molar – A rare anomaly – case report
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
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.
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Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Rudresh K B, Prashanth R, Abhishek Khatua, Vinod Kumar
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