Department of Dental Surgery, Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Online published on 11 March, 2013.
Impacted incisor with dilacerations metaphorically termed as “Whale Tooth” refers to a dental deformity characterized by an angulation between crown and root causing noneruption of the incisor. In this article, a horizontally impacted and dilacerated inverted right maxillary central incisor was diagnosed radiographically and surgical extraction was performed as orthodontic intervention had poor prognosis
Impacted, inverted, dilacerations, incisor
