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Letter to the Editor| Volume 58, ISSUE 4, P492-494, May 2020

An unusual presentation of supernumerary teeth in the mastoid bone

  • Author Footnotes
    1 Fengshuo Zhu and Li Ma contributed to this paper equally.
    F. Zhu
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    1 Fengshuo Zhu and Li Ma contributed to this paper equally.
    Affiliations
    Department of Oral Maxillofacial-Head and Neck Oncology, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Disease, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology &Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology
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  • Author Footnotes
    2 Fengshuo Zhu and Li Ma contributed to this paper equally.
    L. Ma
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    2 Fengshuo Zhu and Li Ma contributed to this paper equally.
    Affiliations
    Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University
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  • Y. He
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    Corresponding author at: Department of oral maxillofacial-Head and Neck Oncology, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Disease, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology &Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, No. 639, Zhi Zao Ju Road, Shanghai 200011, China. Tel.: +86 21 23271699 5160.
    Affiliations
    Department of Oral Maxillofacial-Head and Neck Oncology, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Disease, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology &Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology
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  • D. Zhang
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    Corresponding author at: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, 324 Jingwu Road, Jinan 250021, China. Tel.: +86 531 68776950.
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    Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University
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  • Author Footnotes
    1 Fengshuo Zhu and Li Ma contributed to this paper equally.
    2 Fengshuo Zhu and Li Ma contributed to this paper equally.
Published:March 26, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjoms.2019.09.026
An unusual presentation of supernumerary teeth in the mastoid bone
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      The presence of supernumerary teeth in the mastoid bone is rare. We present a patient in whom the abnormal teeth were distant from the jaw and could have been easily misdiagnosed.
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      Published online: March 26, 2020

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjoms.2019.09.026

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