Prevalência de dentes supranumerários em pacientes portadores de fissura labiopalatina : estudo populacional.

Abstract

Introduction: The cleft lip and palate fissures are the most common facial anomalies in human beings and can rush the lip, the palate or both, in a complete or incomplete form. As it treats of a facial anomaly, they can present factors that may contribute to dental anomalies, being supernumerary tooth one of the most commons. Method: The analyzed population is constituted by 1408 patients that have the cleft lip and palate fissures and are being attended at Fundação para Reabilitação das Deforminadades Crânio Faciais (FUNDEF), in Lajeado, Rio Grande do Sul, between the years of 1992 and 2018. The biological sex, kind of fissure and supernumerary tooth were studied variables. The fissures were analyzed following Spina classification. Results: As the biological sex, the male was predominant (56,5%). In cleft lip and palate fissures, the transforaminal clefts where the most frequent ones (58,8%). In relation to the supernumerary tooth, 43,5% of the patients had this anomaly. The supernumerary tooth from the left side was the most frequent (22,1%). Conclusion: There is a very high predominance of supernumerary tooth in patients attended in Fundação para Reabilitação das Deformidades Crânio Faciais, mostly in the male sex and associated to the unilateral transforaminal fissure. The left supernumerary tooth was the most predominate.