If you still have all your teeth, you know: complete dentition account 32 teeth in adulthood. 28 If you no longer have your wisdom teeth. And yet, an image of radiography several times divided in recent weeks shows the impossible: 81 teeth in a single mouth. Given the period, it is tempting to think of a montage made by AI. And yet, this radiography is perfectly authentic.
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A biting image, all that is real
The verification comes from an American site, Snopwhich is keen to flush out the fake news. According to him, the viral image has been circulating since 2013, well before the arrival of Chatgpt and his friends. But above all, journalists found the trace of the original source: an article in the review Journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, Everything is most credible. And for even more details, they called the authors.
An 11 -year -old girl suffering from hyperddom
The team thus had confirmation of the veracity of the case, on the part of Robert Willer Farinazzo Vitral, researcher at the Federal University of Jew of Fora in Brazil. This confirmed, it was the unusual case of a small patient:
“A black girl, 11 years old and 8 months old, came to consult; the radiographs revealed 81 teeth: 18 temporary, 32 permanent and 31 supernumerary. The main initial concern was to determine if she was syndromic, and she was oriented towards a geneticist.”
The little patient’s medical team prescribed radiographs, more precisely a “volume computed computed tomography with conical beam”, in order to determine the number of additional teeth and their location.
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A extremely rare but possible case according to our dentist
Hyperdontia is a fairly rare dental anomaly, explains Dr. Jérémy Amzalag, dental surgeon and author of www.capitaldents.com, the medico dental encyclopedia.
“We are talking about hyperdundy when a person has more teeth than normal. An adult should have 32 teeth, but in case of hyperddom, there can be 33, 34 … or sometimes much more (81 teeth in this case!)”, ” evokes the expert.
These additional teeth are called supernumerary teeth. They are generally discovered by chance in the dentist thanks to a dental panoramic radiography. They can take several aspects. “”They most often appear on the top jaw, especially near the incisors. They can be small, poorly trained or on the contrary look like real teeth ” specifies the expert.
But the problem for the person intervenes especially when these teeth become embarrassing. “Sometimes they come out properly, but often they remain stuck in the gum. This can cause bad alignment, difficulty chewing or an irregular smile ” lists the dentist.
The treatment depends on the case: “PThe same time is left the tooth alone, sometimes the dentist must remove it “. In the case of the little girl, the article indicates that extraction of additional teeth was possible and was the most likely solution to the problem. Even if the authors underlined the difficulty of the case. However, the investigators found no follow -up to this article. If the photo is very authentic, it is unknown today if the child has been able to evolve and grow, with its particularity.