Finding
unerupted tooth
Subclass of:
Tooth Diseases;
Tooth
Definitions related to unerupted tooth:
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(tooth, unerupted) A normal developing tooth which has not yet perforated the oral mucosa or one that fails to erupt in the normal sequence or time interval expected for the type of tooth in a given gender, age, or population group.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(eruption failure) A tooth which does not erupt within the teeth eruption timeline and after the loss of eruption potential.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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