title: Bilateral Supernumerary Deciduous Maxillary Lateral Incisors with Fusion: Report of a Rare Case.
abstract: Dental anomaly in number, size and shape might be due to excessive activation of dental lamina during the morpho-differentiation stage. Fusion is one of the most unusual and rare anomalies of shape of the teeth. It frequently involves the supernumerary teeth resulting in a challenging differential diagnosis with gemination. Dental anomalies may result in different problems such as delayed eruption and crowding; thus, early diagnosis is required for effective intervention and proper in-time treatment. The case reported here is a 4-year-old girl with bilateral supernumerary primary maxillary lateral incisors associated with fusion between primary maxillary left lateral incisor and supernumerary lateral tooth.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Faezeh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ghaderi
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Student of Research Committee, Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Azade
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rafiee
keywords: Deciduous Tooth; Fusion; Supernumerary Tooth