Original Research Article
Year: 2021 | Month: January-March | Volume: 6 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 148-156
Prevalence of Dental Morphology Anomalies in Greater Noida Population
Aman Khurana1, Neetika Gupta2, Unnavi Chauhan3, Ruchika Dewan4
1Junior Resident, I.T.S Dental College, Hospital &Research Centre, Greater Noida.
2Postgraduate student, Department of Periodontics, I.T.S Dental College,
Hospital &Research Centre, Greater Noida.
3Junior Resident, I.T.S Dental College, Hospital &Research Centre, Greater Noida.
4Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, ITS Dental College,
Hospitals and Research Centre, Greater Noida.
Corresponding Author: Neetika Gupta
ABSTRACT
Human teeth of both dentitions may show changes and variations in morphological structures. Such variations can be found on the crown either in the form of an increased number of roots or in anomalous cusps. In this study, our aim is to find the incidence of dental morphological anomalies in Greater Noida population, distribution according to teeth and Gender
Materials and Methods: The study was carried out on 2250 women and men, visiting Oral Medicine department from August 2019 to January 2020 were screened for the presence of any dental morphological anomalies namely, cusp of Carabelli in permanent maxillary first molar, shoveling and double shoveling, supernumerary teeth and talon cusp and four- five- six cusped mandibular permanent first molar in population of Greater Noida. The results were analyzed with Chi-square test.
Results: The study was carried out on 2250 women and men. About 68.26% of the studied population had one or more deviant morphological features of permanent teeth.
The variation most commonly seen was double shoveling (34.93%) followed by shoveling (28.17%). Non-significant results were observed in any trait with respect to gender.
Conclusion: This study is the first of its kind, providing a baseline data of the prevalence of morphological details in the Greater Noida population
Keywords: Dental morphological anomalies, Dental anatomy, Greater Noida .