It is suggested that both double teeth and other anomalies in the same children or in their siblings may be manifestations of a primary abnormality in the distribution of dental material.

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This paper shows a case of pyogenic granuloma occurring as a post-traumatic oral lesion, in a 19-month-old patient. The palatally chamfered fracture of a maxillary primary incisor together with the continuous sucking of a dummy could have caused the special shape of the pyogenic granuloma over the remaining coronal fragment.

The macromorphology and micromorphology of two specimens of primary triple teeth using histological and CT analysis approach is analyzed. A single morphological pattern of triple teeth has been found and described: three nearly separate crowns with three separate pulp chambers, and three joined roots with three connected root canals. The characteristic triple teeth appearance occurred because a labial supernumerary tooth is the junction element between two teeth of normal series: the central incisor on the mesial side and the lateral incisor on the distal side. Primary triple teeth suggest an idiophatic abnormality in the distribution of the dental material originated very soon in the dental development. They can be considered as an early double fusion between three tooth germs, initially separate but in close proximity and developing synchronically.

BackgroundDisplaced maxillary permanent canine is one of the more frequent findings in canine eruption process and it’s easy to be outlined and early diagnosed by means of x-ray images. Late diagnosis frequently needs surgery to rescue the impacted permanent canine. In many cases, interceptive treatment to redirect canine eruption is needed. However, some patients treated by interceptive means end up requiring fenestration to orthodontically guide the canine to its normal occlusal position. It would be interesting, therefore, to discover the dental characteristics of patients who will need additional surgical treatment to interceptive treatment.Material and MethodsTo study the dental characteristics associated with canine impaction, conventional statistics have traditionally been used. This approach, although serving to illustrate many features of this problem, has not provided a satisfactory response or not provided an overall idea of the characteristics of these types of patients, each one of them with their own particular set of variables. Faced with this situation, and in order to analyze the problem of impaction despite interceptive treatment, we have used an alternative method for representing the variables that have an influence on this syndrome. This method is known as Self-Organizing Maps (SOM), a method used for analyzing problems with multiple variables.ResultsWe analyzed 78 patients with a PMC angulation higher than 100º. All of them were subject to interceptive treatment and in 21 cases it was necessary to undertake the above-mentioned fenestration to achieve the final eruption of the canine.ConclusionsIn this study, we describe the process of debugging variables and selecting the appropriate number of cells in SOM so as to adequately visualize the problem posed and the dental characteristics of patients with regard to a greater or lesser probability of the need for fenestration. Key words:Interceptive orthodontic treatment, altered eruption, impacted canines, neuronal networks, self-organizing maps.