Journal of Oral Sign

  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 3

“The Whale Tooth”: A rare bizarre dental anamoly

  • Author:
  • Riyaz Ahmad, P.K. Maheshwari, Ali Atif
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 148 to 150

Department of Dental Surgery, Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

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

Keywords

Impacted, inverted, dilacerations, incisor