@Article{, title={Maxillary Lateral Incisors: Different Agenesis Patterns}, author={Ali Ghanim Abdullah and Ban Ismael Sedeeq}, journal={Tikrit Journal for Dental Sciences مجلة تكريت لعلوم طب الاسنان}, volume={9}, number={1}, pages={52-56}, year={2021}, abstract={diversified samples of peoples, but the humankind relations of the unlike shapes or uneven figures of lateral incisor variants still vague (5). Microdontia is a state where the teeth are appeared tiny than the ordinary average bulk or size, either involving all teeth or be confined to a monosyllabic tooth or a grist of teeth (6). Microdontia of 7& 10 (universal numbering) of maxillary lateral incisor is termed as “peg lateral” or occasionally called wedged shaped lateral incisors, in which the tooth displays a concur or huddle of crown mesial and distal flatness's brewing an etcher like shape, associated with a shorter root length than normal (7) as seen in Fig. (1) a & b. Evolution missing of one or more teeth is referred to as Hypodontia, Asians& native Americans are considerably shown like this condition in permanent dentition. The second most rife tooth to be congenitally missing is maxillary lateral incisors, if excluding third molars, its forfeit could be on a single side, or both sides of the dental arch (8) as revealed in Fig. (2). Dens invaginatus is a chronological abnormality in which its outcomes manifested as a profound or invagination of the developmental organ of enamel directed towards the dental papilla before the dental tissue’s calcination (9), this condition is frequently affecting permanent maxillary lateral incisors; although cases had been recorded in mandibular region and in the deciduous dentition (10), as revealed in Fig. (3) a & b.

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