title: Association of Dental Anomalies with Different Types of Malocclusions in Pretreatment Orthodontic Patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The study is planned to correlate the existence of dental anomalies with different types of malocclusion as the occurrence of anomalies is common in malocclusion.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present study was conducted among 430 patients with different types of malocclusion as 161 patients having Class I, 203 with Class II, and 66 with Class III malocclusion. The age of the patients ranged from 12 to 15 years. Diagnosis was done on the basis of history, clinical, cephalometric, radiographs, and dental cast examination. The level of significance was set at P = 0.05.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Most common anomaly was rotation of teeth (18.80%), followed by hypodontia (10.90%), and least occurring was gemination, fusion, talon's cusp, and dilacerations. 31.4% showed one dental anomaly, whereas 11.9% exhibited two or more dental anomalies. The highest mean value of all the dental anomalies was seen with severe cases of malocclusion and also significant differences were observed according to gender.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present study investigated various dental anomalies in relation to malocclusion. It was found that 31.4% showed one dental anomaly, whereas 11.9% exhibited two or more dental anomalies. Hence, careful prior investigation of dental anomalies is necessary for better orthodontic treatment planning to reduce the complications.
authors.affiliation: Professor & Head, Department of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, MNR Dental College & Hospital, Sangareddy, Medak, Telangana, India.
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Dwijendra
authors.affiliation: Consultant Orthodontist, Parikh's Supespeciality Dental Hospital, Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: Vishal
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Parikh
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopaedics, MNR Dental College & Hospital, Sangareddy, Medak, Telangana, India.
authors.forename: Soja Sara
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: George
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontics, MNR Dental College & Hospital, Sangareddy, Medak, Telangana, India.
authors.forename: Gururam Tej
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Kukkunuru
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, MNR Dental College & Hospital, Sangareddy, Medak, Telangana, India.
authors.forename: Gali Nagarjuna
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Chowdary
keywords: Dental anomaly; malocclusion; orthodontics