The prevalence of congenitally missing teeth in class I, II, III malocclusions.
A total of 1619 patients, 502 males and 1117 females, ranging in age from 6.5 to 32 years old were examined. The study used a full set of radiographs, panographs, lateral cephalogram and study models to find the highest prevalence of congenitally missing teeth in class II malocclusion patients and a significant amount of missing maxillary teeth in Class III malocclusion patients.
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Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000848:Anodontia / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000209:etiology*; D015995:Prevalence