Nonsyndromic bilateral type II dens invaginatus in maxillary lateral incisors: A case report Thaman Deepa, Professor, Sandhu V. Simarpreet, Professor & Head, Mahajan Pardeep, Professor & Head, Monga Prashant, Senior Lecturer, Bajaj Nitika, Senior Lecturer Address for Correspondence: Dr. Deepa Thaman, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics Genesis, Institute of Dental Sciences and Research, Ferozepur Moga Road, Ferozepur -152001 Punjab, India. Email: drdeepaanand@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 25 November, 2013. Abstract Dens invaginatus is a malformation of teeth probably resulting from an infolding of the dental papilla during tooth development. Teeth most affected are maxillary lateral incisors and bilateral occurrence is not uncommon. The abnormal morphology of these teeth often produces infections of odontogenic origin. The caries prone invagination of tooth structure which may communicate with the dental pulp leads to early necrosis with a resultant periapical infection. It is thus important that an early diagnosis of the presence of such teeth be made in order to avoid extraction at later stage. This case report describes the anomalous development of maxillary right and left permanent lateral incisors characteristic of dens invaginatus. Top Keywords Dens in dente, dens invaginatus, dialated gestant odontoma, dialated composite odontoma, tooth inclusion. Top |