1Professor, Department of Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Seema Dental College & Hospital, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
2Asst Professor, Department of Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Seema Dental College & Hospital, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
3Postgraduate Student, Department of Paedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Seema Dental College & Hospital, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India
4Reader, Department of Public Health & Dentistry, DJ College of Dental Sciences & Research, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh
Abnormalities in tooth morphology are not uncommon. However talon's cusp is a recherché dental anomaly of the permanent dentition. It's an anomalous structure resembling an eagle's talon that projects lingually from the cingulum area of a maxillary or mandibular permanent incisor. Presence of bilateral talon's cusp in primary lateral incisors is an extremely recondite clinical finding. Its presence makes the otherwise caries resistant incisors prone to tooth decay. It is generally asymptomatic but sometimes it may pose functional or esthetic problems and so it demands a preventive line of management. This paper reports one such rare case of non-syndromic bilateral talon's cusp in primary lateral incisors during mixed dentition period and its preventive management.
Bilateral Talon's cusp, dens evaginatus, Primary lateral incisors
