Abstract
A Radiographic Study of Non-Syndromic Congenitally Missing Teeth in Permanent Dentition of Nigerian Dental Patients
Highlights
Missing teeth (CMT) had been defined as those teeth that fail to erupt into the oral cavity and remain invisible in radiographs [1]
This could be in form of hypodontia, oligodontia or anodontia
The prevalence of congenitally missing teeth among different population had been reported with a wide range from 0.3% to 17.1% [4, 7, 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17]
Summary
Missing teeth (CMT) had been defined as those teeth that fail to erupt into the oral cavity and remain invisible in radiographs [1]. This could be in form of hypodontia (agenesis of one to six teeth), oligodontia (absence of six or more teeth, excluding the third molar) or anodontia There were contrary reports which showed maxillary lateral incisors [7, 10, 14, 21, 22], mandibular incisors [9], and mandibular lateral incisors [23] as the most frequent congenitally missing teeth in their respective studies
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