08/12/2025
❇️ Dental Anomalies
▶️ Flexion: A developmental deviation or bend occurring within the root portion of a tooth, usually a gentle, non‑angular curvature.
▶️ Dilaceration: A marked, often sharp deviation or bend in the root or crown of a formed tooth, sometimes approaching or exceeding a right angle.
▶️ Concrescence: A type of union in which two fully formed, adjacent teeth are joined only by cementum without dentin involvement.
▶️ Fusion: A developmental anomaly resulting from union of two normally separate tooth germs, characterized by confluence of dentin (and sometimes enamel), producing a single enlarged tooth.
▶️ Dwarfed roots (short root anomaly): Teeth with normal‑sized clinical crowns but abnormally short, often blunted roots.
▶️ Accessory roots: The presence of one or more additional roots beyond the normal expected number for that tooth type.
▶️ Hypercementosis: Excessive deposition of secondary cementum along the root surface, leading to a thickened, bulbous root outline on radiographs.
▶️ Enamel pearl: A small, rounded ectopic nodule of enamel located on the root surface, most commonly in the furcation area of molars.
