Title

Prevalence of developmental anomalies in teeth among Indian school children: An epidemiological study

Authors

Monisha Batra¹, Awadhesh Gupta^2,*, Savita Singh³, F. Salma⁴, Rahul Kumar Tomar⁵, Sambit Prasad⁶ & Yatharth Yatharth⁷

Affiliation

¹Private Clinical Practitioner, Chadakya, New Delhi, India; ²Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, D. J. College of Dental Sciences & Research, Modinagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India; ³Self Owned Multispecialty Hospital & Dental Clinic, Chirag Delhi – New Delhi, India; ⁴Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, NIMS Univeraity, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India; ⁵Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, DJ College of Dental Sciences and Research, Modinagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India; ⁶Department of Dental Surgeon, Community Health Centre, Odagaon, Nayagarh, Odisha, India; ⁷Intern, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Deemed to be University, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Monisha Batra - E - mail: monishabatra14@gmail.com
Awadhesh Gupta - E - mail: drawadheshgupta@gmail.com
Savita Singh - E - mail: vidisaasingh@gmail.com
F Salma - E - mail: surumy.fazil@gmail.com
Rahul Kumar Tomar - E - mail: rahul376657@gmail.com
Sambit Prasad - E - mail: sambit.prasad@gmail.com
Yatharth Yatharth - E - mail: yathaharthbishnoi@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received May 1, 2025; Revised May 31, 2025; Accepted May 31, 2025, Published May 31, 2025

Abstract

The prevalence of developmental dental anomalies among 5,000 schoolchildren aged 5–15 years in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh is of interest. We examined their association with age, sex, dentition stage, jaw location, and socioeconomic status. Data were collected from school-based screening camps and pediatric outpatients at Santosh Dental College. Enamel hypoplasia was the most common anomaly, followed by supernumerary teeth and talon cusp, while micro-dontia, fusion, and hypodontia were less frequent. Most anomalies showed no gender bias, except for enamel hypoplasia and talon cusp. Higher prevalence was observed in children from lower socioeconomic groups, in the mixed dentition stage, and predominantly in the maxilla.

Keywords

Developmental anomalies, prevalence, epidemiological study, enamel hypoplasia, supernumerary teeth, fusion, microdontia, hypodontia, dens evaginatus, talon cusp.

Citation

Batra et al. Bioinformation 21(5): 1135-1139 (2025)

Edited by

P Babaji

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.