megadontia

English

Etymology

megadont +‎ -ia

Noun

megadontia (uncountable)

  1. Malformation of megalodontia
  2. (pathology, dentistry) Macrodontia.
    • 2008, R. A. Cawson, E. W. Odell, Cawson's Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, 8th edition, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, page 22:
      Dens in dente, peg-shaped lateral incisors, microdontia, megadontia, fusion, gemination and connation, talon cusp, taurodontism, etc. Recognised by their appearance
    • 2012, P. J. M. Crawford, M. J. Aldred, “Anomalies of tooth formation and eruption”, in Richard Welbury, Monty S. Duggal, Marie Thérèse Hosey, editors, Paediatric Dentistry, 4th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 257:
      Isolated megadontia in the permanent dentition has been estimated to occur in approximately 1% of patients. The condition may be symmetrical. Generalized megadontia has been reported in association with pituitary gigantism, unilateral facial hyperplasia, and hereditary gingival fibromatosis.
    • 2014, AH Brook, J Jernvall, RN Smith, TE Hughes, GC Townsend, “The dentition: the outcomes of morphogenesis leading to variations of tooth number, size and shape”, in Australian Dental Journal, volume 59, number s1, page 136:
      With the thresholds added on the curves it also accounts for the higher prevalences of hypodontia and microdontia in females and the higher prevalences of megadontia and supernumeraries in males.
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