title: Anomalies of form and number, fused primary teeth, a correlation of the dentitions.
abstract: Fusion is rare in the primary dentition (range .14 percent to 3 percent). Patients with fused primary lateral incisors and canines have about a 75 percent chance of lacking the succedaneous lateral incisor. Patients with fused incisors have less than a 20 percent chance of having a missing permanent tooth.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005671:Fused Teeth / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014071:Tooth Abnormalities / Q000150:complications*; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014096:Tooth, Supernumerary / Q000150:complications*