Case Report

Year : 2020 | Volume : 5 | Issue : 1 | Page : 29-31

Supernumerary Premolars in a Patient with Neurofibromatosis Type‐1

Raju Biswas, Sauvik Galui, Santanu Mukhopadhyay, Subrata Saha, Subir Sarkar

Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Dr. R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Address for correspondence:

Dr. Sauvik Galui,

Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Dr. R Ahmed Dental College and Hospital, Kolkata ‐ 700 014, West Bengal, India.

E‐mail: sauvikgalui92@gmail.com

Abstract

Neurofibromatosisis a relatively common dominantly inherited neurodermal dysplasia that affects many parts of the body including oral cavity. The patient, an 18‐year‐old girl diagnosed as neurofibromatosis Type‐1 (NF1) exhibited foursupernumerary premolars. In addition, panoramic radiograph of the patient showed enlarged right mandibular canal and foramen, unilocular radiolucent areas in the rami of the mandible, and increase in the dimension of coronoid notch on both sides of the mandible. The concomitant presentation of supernumerary teeth with NF1 reported here might be due to genetic linkage or could be a chance occurrence.

Keywords: Neurofibromatosis Type‐1, premolars, supernumerary teeth

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How to cite this article: Biswas R, Galui S, Mukhopadhyay S, Saha S, Sarkar S. Supernumerary premolars in a patient with neurofibromatosis type-1. Int J Pedod Rehabil 2020;5:29-31.