Determinação da prevalência das anomalias dentárias em Aracaju/SE

Abstract

Dental anomalies are deviations from the patterns of biological normality that envolve complex interactions between genetic and/or environmental factors during the tooth formation process and can include diferences that include morphology, position and number of the teeth. This study aims to define the prevalence of dental anomalias of number (mesiodens, distomolar, paramolar, ectopic supranumerary teeth, hypodontia, oligodontia and anodontia), size (macrodontia of the maxillary central incisor, macrodontia and microdontia of the third molar and microdontia of the maxillary lateral incisor), form (taurodontism) as well as position (impacted maxillary canine and maxillary canine transposition) in the city of Aracaju, state of Sergipe, Brazil In this study 1266 panoramic radiographs from the digital archive of a radiology clinic belonging to patients between 4 and 20 years old taken in the year of 2018 were evaluated. The most prevalent dental anomalies in the present study were: hypodontia (4,5%), impacted upper canine (2,1%), taurodontism (1,5%), microdontia of the upper lateral incisor (0,9%) and ectopic supranumerary teeth (0,8%).