Open AccessPrevalence of hypodontia in nine- to fourteen-year-old children who attended the Mashhad School of Dentistry
Author(s) -
Behgat-al-molok Ajami,
Mahboobeh Shabzendedar,
Maryam Mehrjerdian
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9290.74215
Subject(s) - hypodontia , medicine , dentistry , orthodontics
Hypodontia is defined as the congenital absence of one or a few teeth, and is also the most common anomaly in dental development. This condition occurs either individually or as part of the symptoms of a syndrome, and it is more common in permanent teeth than in deciduous teeth, reporting a prevalence of between 1.6 and 9.6%.