A case report of supernumerary tooth and review of literature.
A boy visited an ear-nose and throat clinic for serous rhinorrhea and a tumor-like mass in the nasal cavity. X-ray and computered tomographies showed a bone-like mass with a slightly radiolucent center which seemed to stem from the nasal septum. A supernumerary tooth in the nasal cavity was extirpated under local anesthesia. In some reports, complications of supernumerary tooth were severe and involved areas other than the nose (cleft lip and/or palate, bilateral aniridia and ectopia lentis, familial adenomatous polyposis coli, ventricular septal defect or patent ductus arteriosus). A case had a risk of inducing severe intracranial complication. Therefore we must not overlook a supernumerary tooth.
Ohashi
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Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
Hori
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D002648:Child; D004724:Endoscopy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014096:Tooth, Supernumerary / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery