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Table 2 Comparison of buccolingual/labiolingual and mesiodistal crown dimensions with an anatomic average* of the left side maxillary and mandibular teeth

From: Non-syndromic occurrence of true generalized microdontia with mandibular mesiodens - a rare case

Left side

Central incisor

Lateral incisor

Canine

First premolar

Second premolar

First molar

Second molar

Total

Maxillary

MD

LL

MD

LL

MD

LL

MD

BL

MD

BL

MD

BL

MD

BL

MD

LL/BL

Average

8.5

7.0

6.5

6.0

7.5

8.0

7.0

9.0

7.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

9.0

11.0

55.5

61.0

Patient

7.2

5.8

4.5

5.4

7.1

7.5

6.2

7.6

6.3

7.7

9.3

10.2

8.7

10.9

49.3

52.1

Mandible

MD

LL

MD

LL

MD

LL

MD

BL

MD

BL

MD

BL

MD

BL

MD

LL/BL

Average

5.0

6.0

5.5

6.5

7.0

7.5

7.0

7.5

7.0

8.0

11.0

10.5

10.5

10.0

53.0

56.0

Patient

4.2

5.7

5.3

6.1

6.7

7.3

6.7

7.2

6.8

7.7

10.7

10.2

9.6

8.9

50.0

53.1

  1. Measurements in millimeters were taken at widest portion of clinical crown on diagnostic casts. *Anatomic average taken from Wheeler, R. C.: Textbook of Dental Anatomy and Physiology, ed. 7, Philadelphia, 1993, W. B. Saunders Company, pp. 25.