Hypodontia is an oral condition where patients have missing teeth due to a failure of development (also called tooth agenesis). Hypodontia describes a situation where the patient is missing up to five permanent teeth, excluding wisdom teeth.
The condition of missing over five (six or more) permanent teeth, is called oligodontia. The condition for missing all teeth, either primary and/or permanent), is called anodontia.
Many other terms to describe a reduction in number of teeth appear in the literature: aplasia of teeth, congenitally missing teeth, absence of teeth, agenesis of teeth and lack of teeth.
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Thank you for giving your readers a good insight about hypodontia! Anyway, in addition to this post, the common condition of hypodontia include missing between one to six teeth. This disease can be either syndromic or isolated. Syndromic is related to a systemic syndrome or condition. Isolated means that hypodontia can be non-syndromic.
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