Koç Nagihan, Cağırankaya L Berna, Akkaya Nursel
Department of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Hacettepe University, Sihhiye, 06100 Ankara, Turkey.
Case Rep Dent. 2014;2014:685014. doi: 10.1155/2014/685014. Epub 2014 Aug 11.
Congenital absence of maxillary permanent canines is an extremely rare condition, which may appear as part of a syndrome or as a nonsyndromic form. Nonsyndromic canine agenesis combined with other types of tooth agenesis has occasionally been described in the literature but isolated cases are rarely observed. This report presents an isolated case of maxillary permanent canine agenesis in a healthy 18-year-old female patient and a literature review on the prevalence, etiology, and differential diagnosis of the condition.
上颌恒牙尖牙先天性缺失是一种极为罕见的病症,它可能作为综合征的一部分出现,也可能以非综合征形式出现。文献中偶尔会描述非综合征性尖牙缺失合并其他类型牙齿缺失的情况,但孤立病例很少见。本报告介绍了一名健康的18岁女性患者孤立性上颌恒牙尖牙缺失的病例,并对该病症的患病率、病因及鉴别诊断进行了文献综述。