Developmental Soft Tissue Abnormalities
This condition is an extensive adhesion of the tongue to the floor of the mouth.
What is ankyloglossia?
This cyst forms around the crown of an unerupted or impacted tooth.
What is a dentigerous cyst?
This cyst occurs within the nasopalatine canal and may appear heart-shaped radiographically.
What is a nasopalatine duct cyst?
The congenital absence of all teeth is called this condition.
What is anodontia?
This occurs when a single tooth germ attempts to divide into two.
What is gemination?
These epithelium-lined blind tracts are located at the corners of the mouth.
What are commissural lip pits?
This cyst appears as swelling of gingival tissue around an erupting tooth.
What is an eruption cyst?
This cyst occurs in the midline of the hard palate and appears as a well-defined radiolucency.
What is a median palatine cyst?
This condition describes the absence of one or more teeth.
What is hypodontia?
This occurs when two adjacent tooth germs unite to form one large tooth.
What is fusion?
This occurs when thyroid tissue fails to migrate from the foramen cecum to the neck.
What is a lingual thyroid?
This cyst develops in place of a tooth and often occurs where a third molar should form.
What is a primordial cyst?
This soft tissue cyst occurs in the mucobuccal fold near the maxillary canine and is more common in females.
What is a nasolabial cyst?
What is hypodontia?
What are supernumerary teeth (hyperdontia)?
This anomaly causes a sharp bend in the root of a tooth.
What is dilaceration?
This surgical procedure is commonly used to treat ankyloglossia.
What is a frenotomy?
In 2005, this cyst was reclassified by the WHO as a keratocystic odontogenic tumor due to its aggressive behavior.
What is an odontogenic keratocyst (OKC)?
This cyst commonly appears as a yellowish raised nodule on the floor of the mouth or tongue.
What is a lymphoepithelial cyst?
This is the most common supernumerary tooth found between maxillary incisors.
What is a mesiodens?
This accessory cusp occurs on the cingulum of incisors and may contain a pulp horn.
What is a talon cusp?
This type of disorder is present at birth and may or may not be inherited.
What is a congenital disorder?
This cyst contains characteristic ghost cells and may have radiopacities.
What is a calcifying odontogenic cyst (Gorlin cyst)?
This cyst forms along the developmental tract of the thyroid gland.
What is a thyroglossal duct cyst?
Teeth that are smaller than normal are described with this term.
What is microdontia?
This condition occurs when the enamel organ invaginates into the crown of a tooth, creating a “tooth within a tooth.”
What is dens in dente (dens invaginatus)?