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Dental anomalies are changes in tooth structure that arise from abnormalities during tooth

formation, both congenital and growth. Dental anomalies can occur due to several factors,
including environmental and genetic influences. Growth anomalies are events that often occur
during the dentition process. The majority of unusual dental disorders occur during childhood.
Tooth anomalies include number, morphology, size, and changes during eruption. This anomaly
can cause complications in dental care, such as root canal treatment and tooth extraction, and can
lead to malocclusion. Many different hypotheses have been put forward about the etiology of the
number of tooth anomalies, so that currently there is no definite etiology, but heredity plays a
role by looking at racial and family trends. Environmental factors can cause tooth decay when
the baby is still in the womb, for example radiation or radiation, trauma, infection, nutritional
and hormonal disorders.[1] But in today's literature, we will only discuss heredity and various
case examples

There is ample evidence to suggest that genes play a dominant role in the etiology of the
reviewed dental anomalies. It has been postulated that some kind of genetically controlled
interrelationship may exist for some of these coincidental dental anomalies, as evidenced by the
frequency of their associated. It has also been speculated that "common genetic defects" can give
rise to different phenotypic manifestations, including missing teeth, deformities, and even
ectopic and malpositioned teeth. Defects in this gene have been found to be one of the reasons
for variations in tooth morphology.[2] Maxillary teeth that developed in the critical marginal
areas of the dental lamina, namely the lateral incisors, canines, and second premolars, appeared
to be most vulnerable. Such dental anomalies may be a symptom of an inherited impaired
development of the tooth structure. Knowing that this dental disorder can be inherited, a family
history and early clinical or radiographic detection of one disorder, can alert parents and doctors
to the most likely detection of other disorders in the same individual and similar disorders in
other family members. Early diagnosis is essential so that pediatric and orthodontic interceptive
opportunities associated with missing teeth, deformities, and ectopic eruptions are not neglected.
Further family research is needed to reveal how some of these dental disorders are inherited.
Early diagnosis of a dental anomaly should allow for more comprehensive long-term treatment
planning, a more precise prognosis and in some cases, less extensive interception.

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