Heredity may be one of the etiologies of supernumerary teeth

pediatric dental journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-117

  Kawashima, Asuka ^a   Nomura, Yoshiaki ^b   Asada, Yoshinobu ^a   Aoyagi, Yoko ^a  

^a Department of Pediatric Dentistry ^*  (United States)

^b TSURUMI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heredity; Supernumerary teeth

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009547428     PISSN: 09172394     EISSN: 18803997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11411/pdj.16.115     Document Type: Article

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