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[Ra'ed Al-Sadhan]

When I see such cases, I wonder if there in OMF radiology any atlas similar
to:

Atlas of Normal Roentgen Variants That May Simulate Disease By Theodore E.
Keats &  Mark W. Anderson

I was shown the attached panoramic image (of an asymptomatic male) and asked
if there is any pathology pushing the lower posterior teeth away from each
other (bilaterally). I could not see any lesions in the panoramic image,
intraoral films were retrieved from patient chart (also attached) and did
not show any lesion. I told the consulting student that these teeth just
don't want to sit beside each other!

I did not have a name for the condition!

Later, I saw a similar case by Professor Axel Ruprecht that he called
"Distal Migration"

I know that such normal variants case reports are published here and there
and some of us keep there own collection of "variation of normal" cases
hoping to publish them or pass them to students.

But it would be nice to have:

Atlas of Normal Oral and Maxillofacial Roentgen Variants That May Simulate
Disease


Ra'ed Al-Sadhan
College of Dentistry, King Saud University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/sadhan/default.aspx
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