Smiles & Faces Orthodontics

Supernumeries- Identifying them and managing unerupted supernumeraries in the front maxilla

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How considerations and the management plan differ in children, teenagers and adults. A podcast between orthodontist Dr Andrew Chang and pediatric dentist Dr Diane Tay that covers the issues in detail.   Dr.Andrew Chang: Diane, welcome, it's nice to have you back on our podcast. Dr. Diane Tay: Hi Andrew. Very good to chat to you again. As always. Dr.Andrew Chang: Well, what we'd like to talk to our audience of dentists today and if there is any interested parents out there as well, but mainly for dentists. The topic of supernumeraries or what we call,extra teeth types. And we were going to focus on the area of the upper front maxilla, the upper front teeth region. So maybe Diane, if you could provide our audience an outline of the different classifications or types of uninterrupted supernumeraries that we're going to talk about. Dr. Diane Tay: Yeah, absolutely Andrew, thank you. And yes, you are right for the benefit of the audiences. We know there's many different types of supernumeraries they can be in d