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Is the homozygous region on chromosome 16q12.2 responsible for a fifth mandibular incisor?
Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, oral radiology, and endodontics - 1 Jun 2008
El-Toum Sami, Cassia Antoine, Zaarour Ibrahim, Hobeika Perla, Feki Ahmed
Abstract excerpt
The presence of a fifth mandibular incisor, a eumorphic supernumerary tooth, has rarely been described in the literature. Recently we reported on a large Lebanese consanguineous family where 4 individuals displayed 5 mandibular incisors with the same shape and size. This type of familial clustering of the trait has not been previously described. We previously postulated several theories to explain the etiology of...
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