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Orthodontic therapy in patients with pericoronal hamartoma
Fecha
2008Registro en:
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHODONTICS AND DENTOFACIAL ORTHOPEDICS, v.133, n.5, p.758-761, 2008
0889-5406
10.1016/j.ajodo.2006.05.037
Autor
QUINTELLA, Claudia
DAMANTE, Jose Humberto
JANSON, Guilherme
GUERRA, Eliete
FREITAS, Marcos Roberto de
STARLING, Claudia
Institución
Resumen
Pericoronal lesions are undesirable for dental eruption, and they are always associated with unerupted teeth. Pericoronal lesions are common and are usually treated by extraction of the permanent tooth. Pericoronal hamartoma is a special type of pericoronal lesion, and little information about it is available in the orthodontic literature. This report presents a patient with pericoronal hamartoma on the mandibular left permanent first molar who had orthodontic treatment. Because of the similarity of the radiographic radiolucency of pericoronal hamartoma and other lesions, a differential diagnosis must be made to avoid extraction of permanent teeth.