title: Tooth-germ sequestration as a sequela of chronic periapical inflammation of the primary predecessor.
abstract: In this case the permanent successor was so radiographically indistinct due to the inflammatory process that this three-year-old Arab boy might have been classified as having congenital absence of the mandibular left first premolar, if the mass had not been sent for histological section. The clinical implications are identical.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics, Hebrew University, Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Goodman-Topper
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gazit
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eidelman
mesh_terms: D001641:Bicuspid / Q000473:pathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010485:Periapical Periodontitis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D014083:Tooth Germ / Q000473:pathology*; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous / Q000473:pathology*