Saturday, 12 December 2015

AIPGDEE Preparation MCQs with Explanations | Paedodontics MCQ

Child with less than normal number of teeth, mandibular lateral incisor is larger than usual; on x rays it shows with two roots and two roots canals; your diagnosis is

a. Dilaceration 
b. Gemination
c. Fusion 
d. Concrescence

The correct answer is C: Dilaceration: Trauma to developing teeth causing the root to form at an angle Concrescence: Fusion of roots of adjacent teeth, joined by cementum. Gemination: Embryologic partial division of a primordium. For example, gemination of a single tooth germ results in two partially or completely separated crowns on a single root.

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