West China Journal of Stomatology

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Multiple supernumerary teeth: A case report

CHEN Jun, ZHANG Qing -fu, LIU Guo -qin, ZHAO Hai -jun, ZHANG Xin-hai   

  1. Stomatological Center of Nanjing Command, No. 411 Hospital of PLA, Shanghai 200081, China
  • Received:2010-02-25 Revised:2010-02-25 Online:2010-02-20 Published:2010-02-20
  • Contact: ZHANG Qing -fu,Tel:021-81824178

Abstract:

Supernumerary teeth is one of the dysplasia that the number of the teeth are more than physical number. Most cases of reports were with 1-2 supernumerary teeth and rare cases were with more than 3 supernumerary teeth. A 17-year old female patient of 7 impacted supernumerary teeth were found because of toothache of premolar caused by impacted supernumerary teeth and were treated by extraction of impacted supernumerary teeth.

Key words: supernumerary teeth, toothache, extraction of teeth