Taurodontism: Understanding the Bull-Shaped Tooth Anomaly

Taurodontism: Understanding the Bull-Shaped Tooth Anomaly

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Answer. Taurodontism is a dental anomaly in which the body of the tooth is enlarged at the expense of the roots. Actually, taurodontism meAns the bull shape appearance of the tooth.

Clinical Features

• Affcted tooth in taurodontism has elongated pulp chamber with the rudimentary root formation.
• Tooth becomes rectangular with minimum constriction at the cervical area.
  Taurodontism commonly affects multirooted permanent molar teeth and sometimes the premolar teeth.
• The bifurcation or trifurcation may be a few millimeters above the apices of the roots.
• Patient with hypodontia may have taurodontism.

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Treatment

No specific treatment is required.