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Interesting anomalous teeth seen in a Mexican immigrant child.

I'm working as a g/p now in a non-profit clinic for Mexican farm workers in the Salinas Valley of Central California. In this population of Mexicans I see a relatively large number of dental (but not oro-facial) anomalies. Primarily, the anomalies are of the supernumerary-mesiodens variety.

Next a reproduction of a single periapical film of a six year old Mexican immigrant boy who presented in my clinic for a routine examination. Neither the patient nor his parents had any complaint about the status of his maxillary anterior teeth.

Due to the fact that these people are migrants, I lost track of this patient and have not been able to get any follow-up films. The image speaks for itself. Aside from the anomalous "centrals" there do not appper to be any normal permanent incisors.

Gene Tunick

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ORADLIST@LISTSERV.UCLA.EDU (May 6, 1999).

Sept 1995

August 1997

November 1998

The patient is a Caucasian female with an unclear medical history.On all radiographs fine radiopaque mesh like structures are found. The origin of this is unknown to me. Please give your opinion.

Gerard Sanderink

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ORADLIST@LISTSERV.UCLA.EDU (Feb 12, 1999).

The patient is a 14 year-old Caucasian male with no relevant medical
history. On the evidence of one of our recent graduates, a reliable
clinician, there are no appreciable clinical features of any abnormality.
The development of the teeth in the 4th quadrant has clearly been arrested,
but there is little evidence of a cause for this arrest.

Colin Price

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ORADLIST@LISTSERV.UCLA.EDU (Dec 15, 1998).

Original file (TIFF, 450 Kb).

Original file (TIFF, 330 Kb).

32 year old male; asymptomatic; discovered on routine panoramic film

Please respond to tschiff@uop.edu orORADLIST (Dec 22, '97).

Original file (TIFF, 1236 Kb).
This is a 56 year old male who presented for evaluation of unerrupted third molars.
The patient has no pain or paresthesia. There is no clinical evidence of neurofibromatosis.
Could these be bilateral Schwannomas?
Thanks for your suggestions.
Stuart White (dec. 97)

Digital panoramic radiograph; Siemens Orthophos DS
file dimensions 2904 x 1540 pixels (4.417 MB)
Courtesy Siemens Dental Systems, Bensheim, Germany

Digital cephalometric radiograph; Siemens Orthophos DS Ceph
file dimensions 2052 x 2348 pixels (4.707 MB)
Courtesy Siemens Dental Systems, Bensheim, Germany

This patient is a woman who complains of diffuse right
and left side facial, head and jaw pain.
Other dental radiographs WNL.
Is this lesion involving 47 (31) with a large restoration,
external root resorption, and a sclerotic bony reaction an
earlier version of the same lesion Peter showed?

Stu White, UCLA, Los Angeles